[mass noun]a condition in which certain fungi infect the tissues. It most commonly affects the lungs, owing to inhalation of spores from mouldy hay, and is then informally called farmer's lung 曲霉病
The fungi are blackish moulds of the genus Aspergillus, subdivision Deuteromycotina 该真菌为曲霉属,系略呈黑色的霉菌,半知菌亚门
语源
late 19th cent.: from modern Latin Aspergillus, from aspergillum, + -osis