| 单词 | muscardine fungus |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmuscardine fungus 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. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。