botrytis bassiana

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botrytis bassiana - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Muscardine \Mus`car*dine"\, n. [F.]
     A disease which is very destructive to silkworms, and which
     sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the
     development of a fungus (provisionally called Botrytis bassiana
     ). Also, the fungus itself.
     [1913 Webster]