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SERICULTURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The production of raw silk by raising silkworms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sericulture" is a kind of...):
production ((economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale)
Derivation:
sericultural (of or relating to sericulture)
sericulturist (a producer of raw silk)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("sericulture" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Derivation:
sericultural (of or relating to sericulture)
sericulturist (a producer of raw silk)
