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muscardine

muscardine noun: a fungal disease, caused by Beauveria bassiana and other species, that affects silkworms, their bodies becoming white and covered with spores.

Noun

muscardine (countable and uncountable, plural muscardines)

  1. A fungal disease, caused by Beauveria bassiana and other species, that affects silkworms, their bodies becoming white and covered with spores.
  2. (countable) A dormouse.

Forms of muscardine

pluralmuscardines

Origin of muscardine

From French muscardine.

Questions about muscardine

What does muscardine mean?
Muscardine means a fungal disease, caused by Beauveria bassiana and other species, that affects silkworms, their bodies becoming white and covered with spores.
What part of speech is muscardine?
Muscardine is a noun.
What is the plural of muscardine?
The plural of muscardine is muscardines.

Words near muscardine in the dictionary

  1. muscal
  2. muscallonge
  3. muscallonges
  4. muscals
  5. muscardin
  6. muscardine
  7. muscardines
  8. muscardinid
  9. muscardinids
  10. muscardins
  11. Muscarella

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