Tussur dictionary definition

The tussur silk industry is of considerable importance, and the silk is reputed the best in the Central Provinces.
The principal industry is the spinning and weaving of silk, chiefly from tussur or jungle silkworms. There are also several lac factories.
- Chinese Tussur Moth, yearly and producing a soft flossy cocoon; the Chinese monthly worm, B.
The most important of the species at the present time is the Chinese tussur or tasar worm, Antheraea pernyi (figs.
7, 8), an oakfeeding species, native of Mongolia, from which is derived the greater part of the so-called tussur silk now imported intoEurope.

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