Sericulture

//ˈsɛɹɪˌkʌltʃə// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The rearing of silkworms for the production of silk. uncountable, usually

    "Numerous experiments have been made with a view to improving sericulture in India."

  2. 2
    the production of raw silk by raising silkworms wordnet
  3. 3
    raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk wordnet

Synonyms

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sericiculture

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"Numerous experiments have been made with a view to improving sericulture in India."

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from French sériculture, a modification of French sériciculture (“sericulture”) (or directly from sériciculture), from Late Latin sēricum (“Chinese goods, especially silk”) + French culture (“crop; culture”). Sēricum is derived from Latin sēricus (“of or pertaining to the Seres or Chinese; (by extension) made of silk, silken”), from Sēres (“northern Chinese people”), from Ancient Greek Σῆρες (Sêres, “the Chinese people; the land of the Chinese, China”), plural of Σήρ (Sḗr, “(rare, usually in plural) Chinese person; silkworm”), possibly from Old Chinese 絲 (*slɯ, “silk”).

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