white fungus

white fungus
noun
a fungus that attacks living fish and tadpoles and spawn causing white fungus disease: a coating of white hyphae on especially peripheral parts (as fins)
Syn: ↑Saprolegnia ferax
Hypernyms: ↑fungus
Member Holonyms: ↑Saprolegnia, ↑genus Saprolegnia

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noun or white fungus disease
1. : a disease of fishes caused by a fungus (Saprolegnia ferox) and characterized by a white coating of hyphae especially on peripheral parts (as fins)
2. : a disease of insects caused by a fungus of the genus Beauveria — compare calcino

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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