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muscardine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mus-car-dine
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fungal disease, caused by Beauveria bassiana and other species, that affects silkworms, their bodies becoming white and covered with spores.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A dormouse.

Countable

Etymology

From French muscardine.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

muscardines (plural)

Questions

What does muscardine mean?
A fungal disease, caused by Beauveria bassiana and other species, that affects silkworms, their bodies becoming white and covered with spores.
Where does muscardine come from?
It is traced to French.

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