Silkworm - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: silkwormRaw 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)....
Bombyx
A genus of moths which includes the silkworm moth See Silkworm...
Polyphemus
A very large American moth Telea polyphemus belonging to the Silkworm family Bombycidaelig Its larva which is very large bright green with silvery tubercles and with oblique white stripes on the sides feeds on the oak chestnut willow cherry apple and other trees It produces a large amount of strong silk Called also American silkworm...
Bombic
Pertaining to or obtained from the silkworm as bombic acid...
Caterpillar
The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect sometimes but less commonly the larval state of other insects as the sawflies which are also called false caterpillars The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs prolegs armed with hooks Some are hairy others naked They usually feed on leaves fruit and succulent vegetables being often very destructive Many of them are popularly called worms as the cutworm cankerworm army worm cotton worm silkworm...
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...
VerbarFlacherie
A bacterial disease of silkworms supposed to be due to eating contaminated mulberry leaves...
Muscardine
A disease which is very destructive to silkworms and which sometimes extends to other insects It is attended by the development of a fungus provisionally called Botrytis bassiana Also the fungus itself...
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