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- Japanese · borrowed from馬鹿苗病
- English todaybakanae
From Japanese 馬鹿苗病 (baka-nae-byō, literally “foolish seedling disease”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Today it means: A disease of rice plants, caused by the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi, whose metabolism produces a surplus of gibberellic acid that causes hypertrophy in the plant. Full definition →
Japanese 馬鹿苗病