n, pl  -co*ses   :  a bacterial infection of domestic animals and humans marked by the formation of usu. superficial vascular granulomatous masses, associated esp. with wounds, and sometimes followed by metastatic visceral tumors bot*ry*o*my*cot*ic adj 
 
 
 
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