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tusser

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tus⋅sah

  [tuhs-uh]
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–noun
1. a tan silk from India. Compare Shantung (def. 3).
2. the silkworm of an oriental moth of the genus Antheraea, as A. mylitta, that produces this silk.
Also, tusseh, tus⋅ser  [tuhs-er] , tussor, tussore, tussur.
Also called wild silk.

Origin:
1580–90; earlier tusser < Hindi tasar shuttle < Skt tasara, trasara kind of silkworm
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noun
oriental moth that produces brownish silk [syn: tussah] 
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