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tussur

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Noun1.tussur - oriental moth that produces brownish silktussur - oriental moth that produces brownish silk
Antheraea mylitta, tussah, tusseh, tusser, tussore
saturniid, saturniid moth - large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons
Antheraea, genus Antheraea - large moths whose larvae produce silk of high quality
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Further afield, in Western India, the tussur silk moth, Antheraea mylitta, was considered a sacred animal, its wing spots seen as the chakra or discus of the god Vishnu (Wardle 1891).
A lepidopterous cocoon from Thera and evidence for silk in the Aegean ... by Panagiotakopulu, E.; Buckland, P.C.; Day, P.M.; Doumas, C.; Sarpaki, A.; Skidmore, P. / Antiquity
 
 
 
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