Cocoon - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cocoonRaw silk
Raw silk, is thin and fine filament of silkworm. Whatever has been eaten by the silkworm, it brings out as a liquid which gets solidified on coming into contact with oxygen.The solidified material is the 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 silk filament in a continuous unbroken length is capable of being reeled out only before the moth comes out. So the pupa inside the cocoon is not allowed to undergo metamorphosis, and is destroyed by throwing the cocoon into hot water. The thread then reeled out of the cocoon on yanks either in country charkhas or filature basin is the silk yarn, and is called raw silk, State of Karnataka v. BV Aswathanarayana Setty, (1980) 2 Kant LJ 361 (DB)....
Cappadine
A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off used for shag...
Cocoon
An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state From these the silk of commerce is prepared...
Cocoonery
A building or apartment for silkworms when feeding and forming cocoons...
Dupion
A double cocoon made by two silkworms...
Filature
A drawing out into threads hence the reeling of silk from cocoons...
Knubs
Waste silk formed in winding off the threads from a cocoon...
Promethea
A large American 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...
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 mori...
Silkworm
The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa...
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