nosema

From nosema disease or directly from translingual Nosema (“a taxonomic genus within the family Nosematidae”),[1] from Latin nosema, from Ancient Greek νόσημᾰ (nósēma, “disease, sickness, plague, affliction”).

• Hyphenation: no‧se‧ma

nosema (uncountable) (insect pathology, informal)

1. Nosema disease:
   1. An infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema.
      • 2007 February 22, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Keeping Bees Among Us”, in New York Times‎:

        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.

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   2. (possibly dated) Pébrine, a disease of silkworms, also caused by Nosema parasites.

• Masone, Seamon

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νόσημᾰ (nósēma, “disease, sickness, plague, affliction”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /noˈseː.ma/, [nɔˈs̠eːmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /noˈse.ma/, [noˈs̬ɛːmä]
• Hyphenation: no‧se‧ma

nosēma n (genitive nosēmatis); third declension

1. disease
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:nosema.

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).