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| pé·brine [ pay brn ] |
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disease of silkworms: a disease of silkworms caused by the parasite Nosema bombycis. Infected silkworm larvae are covered in brown spots and unable to spin their silk cocoons.
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| [Late 19th century. Via French < Provençal pebrino "peppery" < pebre "pepper"] |
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