muscardine

English

Noun

muscardine (countable and uncountable, plural muscardines)

  1. (countable, uncountable) 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.

French

Noun

muscardine f (plural muscardines)

  1. muscardine (fungal disease of silkworms)

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