nosémose
French, noun/no.ze.moz/
nosémose is spelled N-O-S-É-M-O-S-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 93 million words in written French, the 301,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nosémose is a French feminine noun meaning “Nosema ceranae, a fungal parasite on Asiatic honeybees (Apis cerana), causing nosemosis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Maladie de l’abeille, due à deux espèces de champignons parasites, du genre Nosema”.
What does nosémose mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineNosema ceranae, a fungal parasite on Asiatic honeybees (Apis cerana), causing nosemosis
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Maladie de l’abeille, due à deux espèces de champignons parasites, du genre Nosema.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of nosémose
- nosémoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nosémose?
- /no.ze.moz/
- \no.ze.moz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is nosémose in French?
nosémose appears about once in every 93 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).