Muscardine

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]