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foulbrood

noun

Etymology

From foul + brood.

  1. derived from *bʰreh₁-✻ — “breath, mist, vapour, steam”
  2. inherited from *brōduz✻ — “heat, breeding”
  3. inherited from brōd — “brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”
  4. inherited from brood
  5. compounded as foulbrood — “foul + brood”

Definitions

  1. A bacterial disease of bees.

    • 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.
    • At times nearly all brood diseases (American foulbrood, European foulbrood, parafoulbrood, sacbrood) were thought to represent a single malady. European and American foulbroods were especially confused.

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