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(tus′ə)

noun

an Asiatic silkworm (Antheraea paphia) that feeds on oak leaves and produces coarse, brownish silk filaments
1. this silk
  in full tussah silk
2. a fabric made from this

Origin: Hindi tasar < Sans tasara, lit., a shuttle, kind of silkworm

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noun

An Asian silkworm, the larva of a large saturniid moth (Antheraea paphia), that produces a coarse brownish or yellowish silk.
The silk produced by this worm or a fabric woven from it.

Origin:

Origin: Hindi tasar

Origin: , from Sanskrit tasaram, shuttle (probably from the shape of its cocoon); see ten- in Indo-European roots

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