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Cocoon
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Dupion
A double cocoon made by two silkworms
Raw silk
silk filament. The silkworm spins the silk filament around itself as a protective shell and this is called cocoon. Each such cocoon is nothing but a continuous length of the silk filament of about 500 metres. The
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Cappadine
A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off used for shag
Knubs
Waste silk formed in winding off the threads from a cocoon
Promethea
bombycid moth Callosamia promethea Its larva feeds on the sassafras wild cherry and other trees and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band
Silkworm
one of numerous species of bombycid moths which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa
Cocoonery
A building or apartment for silkworms when feeding and forming cocoons
Filature
A drawing out into threads hence the reeling of silk from cocoons
Silk
The fine soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state especially that produced by the larvaelig of Bombyx
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