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tussah


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tussah  \Tus"sah\  Tusseh  \Tus"seh\(t[u^]s"s[.a]),  n.  [Also 
  {tussa},  {tussar},  {tusser},  {tussur},  etc.]  [Prob.  fr  Hind. 
  tasar  a  shuttle,  Skr.  tasara  trasara.] 
  An  undomesticated  East  Indian  silkworn  ({Anther[ae]a 
  mylitta}),  that  feeds  on  the  leaves  of  the  oak  and  other 
  plants. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tussah 
  n  :  oriental  moth  that  produces  brownish  silk  [syn:  {tusseh},  {tussur}, 
  {tussore},  {tusser},  {Antheraea  mylitta}] 




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