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nosema disease

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English

Syllables
nose-ma dis-ease
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative letter-case form of nosema disease (“infectious disease of some insects caused by some microsporidian parasites”).

Uncountable

noun

An infectious disease of some insects caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema.

Uncountable

noun

An infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by microsporidian parasites, such as Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae.

Uncountable

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Etymology

1909, translingual Nosema (“a taxonomic genus within the family Nosematidae”) + disease; a calque of German Nosemaseuche, coined from Nosema + Seuche (“epidemic, pestilence”).

Word Breakdown

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

Nosema diseases (plural) Nosema-disease (alternative)

Synonyms

microsporidiosis nosemosis Isle of Wight disease

Questions

What does nosema disease mean?
Alternative letter-case form of nosema disease (“infectious disease of some insects caused by some microsporidian parasites”).
Where does nosema disease come from?
1909, translingual Nosema (“a taxonomic genus within the family Nosematidae”) + disease; a calque of German Nosemaseuche, coined from Nosema + Seuche (“epidemic, pestilence”).

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