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Sericulture N Production Silk Rearing Silkworms Pasteur Arrived

Word sericulture
Definition n. The production of silk by rearing silkworms.
Sentence When Pasteur arrived in the South to combat the disease threatening French sericulture, which he was soon to overcome, he did not know the habits of the silkworm.
Source The Intellectual Life, A.G. Sertillanges, p. 180

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