tussah
noun
- an Asiatic silkworm (Antheraea paphia) that feeds on oak leaves and produces coarse, brownish silk filaments
- this silk
- a fabric made from this
See tussah in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(tŭsˈə, tŭsˈôˌ) also tus·sore (tŭsˈôrˌ, -ōrˌ)
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.
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