Etymology

muscardine

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Today it means: A fungal disease, caused by Beauveria bassiana and other species, that affects silkworms, their bodies becoming white and covered with spores. Full definition →

French muscardine
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  1. French · derived frommuscardine
  2. English todaymuscardine

From French muscardine.

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