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餅病菌 (もちびょうきん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

餅もち病びょう菌きん

Meanings

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noun

rice cake disease bacteria; blister blight bacteria

Technical term in plant pathology; refers to bacteria causing a disease that makes rice grains look like mochi (rice cakes).

See also: 餅 (もち)

餅もち病びょう菌きんはイネの籾もみを餅もちのように変へん形けいさせる。
Rice cake disease bacteria deform rice grains into a mochi-like shape.

Kanji

餅mochi rice cake
病ill, sick
菌germ, fungus, bacteria

Similar words

餅もち
餅 (mochi) is the rice cake itself; 餅病菌 is the pathogen that causes the disease named after its mochi-like symptom.

Etymology

Compound of 餅 (mochi, 'rice cake'), 病 (byō, 'disease'), and 菌 (kin, 'bacterium'), referring to the rice-cake-like appearance of infected grains.