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muscardines

muscardines is the plural of muscardine.

Meaning of muscardine

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.

Questions about muscardines

What is muscardines the plural of?
Muscardines is the plural of muscardine.

Words near muscardines in the dictionary

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

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