English Explanatory Dictionary

nosema

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Nosema disease:
  2. An infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema.
  3. Pébrine, a disease of silkworms, also caused by Nosema parasites.

Word forms

nosema

Etymology

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

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