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Raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk
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sericulture
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The rearing of silkworms for the production of silk.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"breeding, rearing and treatment of silkworms, 1839, from French sériciculture (19c.), from Latin sericum (nominative serica ) "silk" (see serge ) + cultura (see culture (n.)).
WordNet
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n. raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk the production of raw silk by raising silkworms
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sericulture , or silk farming , is the rearing of silkworms for the production of silk . Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, Bombyx mori (the caterpillar of the domesticated silk moth) is the most widely used and intensively studied ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sericulture \Ser"i*cul`ture\, n. [See Sericeous , and Culture .] The raising of silkworms.
Usage examples of sericulture.
They at least had some quantifiable output: fabric mills and sericulture, glasswork, mining .
The fall of silk prices was particularly distressing to farming families, many of which were greatly dependent on supplementary income from sericulture to make ends meet.
Girls carried straw baskets up the hill to the monastery, and the bonzes lined them with yellow paper upon which they had drawn pictures of Lady Horsehead, and the abbot blessed the baskets and burned incense to the patron of sericulture.