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SERICULTURE

• SERICULTURE (noun)
The noun SERICULTURE has 2 senses:

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

Familiarity information: SERICULTURE used as a noun is rare.

• SERICULTURE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("sericulture" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Sense 2

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Meaning:

The production of raw silk by raising silkworms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("sericulture" is a kind of...):

production ((economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale)

"Better safe than sorry."
(English proverb)
"Many have fallen with the bottle in their hand."
(Native American proverb, Lakota)
"Don't count the teeth of a gift horse."
(Armenian proverb)
"Do not wake sleeping dogs."
(Dutch proverb)

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