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発音

• ハイフネーション: no‧se‧ma

名詞

nosema ‎(uncountable) (insect pathology, informal)

1. Nosema disease:
   1. An infectious disease of adult honey bees caused by some microsporidian parasites of the genus Nosema.
      • 2007 February 22, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Keeping Bees Among Us”, in New York Times^[1]:

        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.

      • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:nosema.
   2. (possibly dated) Pébrine, a disease of silkworms, also caused by Nosema parasites.

参照

1. ^ “Nosema, n.”, in OED Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

語源

Borrowing from Ancient Greek νόσημᾰ ‎(nósēma, “disease, sickness, plague, affliction”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /noˈseː.ma/, [nɔˈseː.ma]
• ハイフネーション: no‧se‧ma

名詞

nosema

1. disease
   • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:nosema.