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nosema

Syllables: no·se·ma

nosema noun: an infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema.

Noun

nosema (uncountable)

  1. An infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema.
    • There were problems in my dad’s day: ants, skunks, wax moths and a couple of deadly but well-known bee diseases, like foulbrood and nosema.2007 February 22, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Keeping Bees Among Us”, in New York Times
  2. (dated, possibly) Pébrine, a disease of silkworms, also caused by Nosema parasites.

nosema meaning in Tamil

nosema in Tamil

உடல் நலக் குறை, நோய், நோய்த் தாக்கம்

Origin of nosema

From nosema disease or directly from translingual Nosema (“a taxonomic genus within the family Nosematidae”), from Latin nosema, from Ancient Greek νόσημᾰ (nósēmă, “disease, sickness, plague, affliction”).

Phrases with nosema

Questions about nosema

What does nosema mean?
Nosema means an infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema.
What is nosema in Tamil?
Nosema in Tamil is உடல் நலக் குறை, நோய், நோய்த் தாக்கம். See Nosema meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nosema?
Nosema is a noun.

Words near nosema in the dictionary

  1. noseling
  2. noselite
  3. noselites
  4. nosels
  5. nosely
  6. nosema
  7. nosema disease
  8. nosema diseases
  9. Nosema-disease
  10. Nosema-diseases
  11. nosematid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nosema (page history and authors); nosema (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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