Definitions for pebrine

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pebrine pe·brine

Spelling: [pey-breen]

IPA: /peɪˈbrin/

Pebrine is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in pebrine (beeinpr).

Definitions for pebrine

noun

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

Origin of pebrine

1865-70; French Provençal pebrino literally, peppery, with reference to the black spots. See pepper, -ine¹

Examples for pebrine

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

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.