muscardine
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English
Noun
muscardine (countable and uncountable, plural muscardines)
- (countable, uncountable) A fungal disease, caused by Beauveria bassiana and other species, that affects silkworms, their bodies becoming white and covered with spores.
- (countable) A dormouse.
French
Noun
muscardine f (plural muscardines)
- muscardine (fungal disease of silkworms)
Further reading
- “muscardine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.