| 单词 | muscardine | 
| 释义 | muscardinen.  Any of various fungal diseases affecting silkworms and other insects (more fully  muscardine disease). Also: any of the fungi, esp. of the genera  Beauveria and  Metarhizium, causing these diseases (more fully  muscardine fungus). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of insects > 			[noun]		 > disorders of silkworms flaccidity18.. gattine1825 grasserie1828 muscardine1846 pébrine1868 flacherie1885 1826    W. Kirby  & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 205  				Black points scattered over different parts of the body, or livid and blackish spots in the vicinity of the spiracles, followed by a yellowish or reddish tint, are symptoms of a fourth malady called La Muscardine.]			 1846    J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 32  				The Muscardine, which is so destructive to silkworms. 1890    W. P. Ball Effects Use & Disuse 108  				The muscardine silkworm disease. 1939    Ecol. Monogr. 9 265  				Outbreaks of the sugar cane froghopper, normally controlled by the muscardine fungus Metarrhizium [sic] anisopliae, occur at four- or five-year intervals. 1966    McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. 		(rev. ed.)	 VII. 122d/2  				One of the most important groups of entomogenous fungi is responsible for muscardine diseases. 1972    L. A. Swan  & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. 291  				The fungus (Beauveria bassiana) infection is called muscardine for the resemblance of the white fruiting bodies covering the silkworm to a powdered-sugar confection. 1990    New Scientist 10 Nov. 24/3  				Researchers..on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao have carried out studies of the Green Muscardine Fungus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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