Nosema
noun
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Noun
- 1 Nosema disease:; An infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema. uncountable
"There were problems in my dad’s day: ants, skunks, wax moths and a couple of deadly but well-known bee diseases, like foulbrood and nosema."
- 2 Nosema disease:; Pébrine, a disease of silkworms, also caused by Nosema parasites. dated, possibly, uncountable
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More examples"There were problems in my dad’s day: ants, skunks, wax moths and a couple of deadly but well-known bee diseases, like foulbrood and 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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