muscardine

English

Noun

muscardine (countable and uncountable, plural muscardines)

1. (countable, uncountable) A fungal disease, caused by Beauveria bassiana and other species, that affects silkworms, their bodies becoming white and covered with spores.
2. (countable) A dormouse.

French

Noun

muscardine f (plural muscardines)

1. muscardine (fungal disease of silkworms)

Further reading

• “muscardine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.