Etymology

bagassosis

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Today it means: A pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of dust from bagasse (“the residue from processing sugar cane after the juice is extracted”). Full definition →

English bagasse ← French bagasse
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  1. Frenchbagasse
  2. Englishbagasse
  3. English todaybagassosis

From bagasse + -osis.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.