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pebrine
[ pey-breen ]
noun
- an infectious disease of silkworms, characterized by a black spotting of the integument and by stunted growth, caused by the protozoan Nosema bomycis.
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On the 28th the twenty-six remaining worms were covered by the black spots of pébrine.
From Project Gutenberg
Pasteur, for example, found that pébrine had been known for an indefinite time as a disease among silkworms.
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