sericulture
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prettygoodwordsericulture (SER-i-kuhl-cher) - n., the raising of silkworms to produce raw silk.
Silk farming. To grow them, you need silkworms, mulberry leaves, as they vastly prefer that over any other leaf, and environmental control. The word dates to the 1840s, from French, coined from Late Latin sēricum, silk (from Latin sēricus, pertaining to the Chinese people, esp. silk, from Sēres, northern Chinese people, from Greek Sêres, China, plural of Sḗr, Chinese person/silkworm, possibly from Old Chinese *[s]ə, silk.
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Silk farming. To grow them, you need silkworms, mulberry leaves, as they vastly prefer that over any other leaf, and environmental control. The word dates to the 1840s, from French, coined from Late Latin sēricum, silk (from Latin sēricus, pertaining to the Chinese people, esp. silk, from Sēres, northern Chinese people, from Greek Sêres, China, plural of Sḗr, Chinese person/silkworm, possibly from Old Chinese *[s]ə, silk.
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---L.
