muscardine means A fungal disease, caused by Beauveria bassiana and other species, that affects silkworms, their bodies becoming white and covered with spores.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, muscardine ranks #7,173 of 20,807 for Qualifying.
Etymology
From French muscardine.
noun
- A fungal disease, caused by Beauveria bassiana and other species, that affects silkworms, their bodies becoming white and covered with spores.
- A dormouse.