English Explanatory Dictionary

muscardine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A fungal disease, caused by Beauveria bassiana and other species, that affects silkworms, their bodies becoming white and covered with spores.
  2. A dormouse.

Word forms

muscardine muscardines

Etymology

From French muscardine.

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