单词 | pébrine |
释义 | pébrinen. A disease of silkworms caused by the microsporidian parasite Nosema bombycis, and characterized by the appearance of dark spots on the insect and the stunting of its growth. Also pébrine disease. Cf. Nosema n. 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 1868 All Year Round 26 Sept. 376/2 Our pets had got ‘pebrine’, or pepper disease. The caterpillars indeed looked as if some one had dusted them with pepper. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 946 [The transmission] of the sporozoa of pebrine from the silkworm moth to its eggs and caterpillar. 1912 E. A. Minchin Introd. Study Protozoa xvi. 412 The Microsporidia first attained an unenviable notoriety through the ravages caused by Nosema bombycis, the cause of ‘pébrine’ or silkworm-disease. 1973 M. A. Sleigh Biol. Protozoa x. 245 Nosema bombycis, is responsible for the pebrine disease of silkworms, in which tissue cells of any type may be infected at any stage of growth. 1995 S. Schama Landscape & Memory ii. 78 Even the catastrophe of the pébrine epidemic that wiped out the industrious worms failed to do much damage to either the riches or the reputation of the Balleanis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1868 |
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