Meaning of foulbrood | Babel Free

Definitions

A bacterial disease of bees.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“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.”

“At times nearly all brood diseases (American foulbrood, European foulbrood, parafoulbrood, sacbrood) were thought to represent a single malady. European and American foulbroods were especially confused.”

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