Skip to main content

pebrine

/pey-breen/US // peɪˈbrin //

碱液,碱基,碱厂,碱水

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an infectious disease of silkworms, characterized by a black spotting of the integument and by stunted growth, caused by the protozoan Nosema bomycis.

Examples

  • Pasteur showed that the failure of the silkworm was not due to one disease, but to two diseases--pebrine and flacherie.

  • The disease of silkworms, known as Pebrine, was spreading with ruinous rapidity in France.

  • Pebrine soon reached Cyprus and almost brought the Island breed to an end.