nosema
nounEtymology From nosema disease or directly from translingual Nosema (“a taxonomic genus within the family Nosematidae”), from Latin nosema, from Ancient Greek νόσημᾰ (nósēmă, “disease, sickness, plague, affliction”).
› Nosema disease:
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Medicine, Pathology, Sciences An infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema.
- There were problems in my dad’s day: ants, skunks, wax moths and a couple of deadly but well-known bee diseases, like foulbrood and nosema.2007 February 22, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Keeping Bees Among Us”, in New York Times: