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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Fungi parasitic upon insects, as the EntomophthoreÅ“, of which the principal genus is Empusa, which attack the house-fly and other insects, and Botrytis Bassiana, which produces the disease known as muscardine in silkworms. See cut under Cordyceps.

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