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pebrine

[ pey-breen ]

noun

  1. 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of pebrine1

1865–70; < French < Provençal pebrino literally, peppery, with reference to the black spots. See pepper, -ine 1
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Example Sentences

Pasteur showed that the failure of the silkworm was not due to one disease, but to two diseases--pebrine and flacherie.

The disease of silkworms, known as Pebrine, was spreading with ruinous rapidity in France.

Pebrine soon reached Cyprus and almost brought the Island breed to an end.

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