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Glossary Terms in Silkworm Production

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Here are some terminologies used in Silkworm Production.

Glossary
Biotechnology - using living organisms in industrial research

Chrysalis - pupa case

Cocoon - silken sheath spun by insect larvae in passing into the pupa stage
Crop - pupae

Fibroin - silk protein

Filament - fibre

Filature - reeling

Green cocoons - cocoons containing live pupae Imago - adulthood

Larva - animal in an immature but active state
Moult - shed skin

Mulberry leaves - leaves from the Mulberry tree on which silkworms feed

Pebrine disease - parasitic disease of the silkworm

Polyphagy - a habit of eating many different types of food

Pupa - an insect between the usually passive stage of larva and adulthood or imago

Pupate - to become a pupa

Sericin - gum produced from the silk gland

Sericulture - silkworm breeding
Sericteries - modified salivary glands or silk glands on the mouthpart of the larvae
Silk Road - world's longest road from Eastern China to the Mediterranean

Spinneret - glandular opening on the silkworm where the silk is produced

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