单词 | sericiculture |
释义 | sericiculturen. = sericulture n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or breeding other animals > [noun] > keeping silkworms sericiculture1839 sericulture1840 1839 New Eng. Farmer 27 Mar. 297/3 (heading) Sericiculture. 1852 Morning Post 19 Oct. 2/5 The specimens exhibited by many members of ‘The Society of Sericiculture of France’. 1869 J. L. Stewart Punjab Plants 218 The cultivation of these two foreign species [of Morus] has been largely extended in the Punjab,..with a view to sericiculture. 1911 C. S. Banks Man. Philippine Silk Culture 39 No greater mistake in sericiculture can be made than that of feeding too young caterpillars on too old leaves or vice versa. 2006 Jrnl. Arachnol. 34 187/2 Dermestes ater..causes serious economic damage to sericiculture, because the beetles feed on high numbers of Bombyx mori. Derivatives ˌsericiˈcultural adj. now rare = sericultural adj. [After French séricicole (1836 or earlier; 1837 in the name of the ̇Société Séricicole de France (compare quot. 1852); < classical Latin sēricum silk (see Seric adj.) + French -i- -i- connective + -cole -cole comb. form).] ΚΠ 1852 Industry of Nations Great Exhib. (Soc. Promoting Christian Knowl.) i. xiii. 381 The specimens exhibited by the Sericicultural Society of France at the Great Exhibition, elicited universal admiration. 1917 Cent. Mag. Aug. 552/2 General Terauchi laid great stress on agricultural schools, model farms, and sericicultural stations. ˌsericiˈculturist n. now rare = sericulturist n. at sericulture n. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or breeding other animals > [noun] > keeping silkworms > keeper of silkworms sericiculturist1839 sericulturist1840 graineur1913 1839 New Eng. Farmer 27 Mar. 298/1 No work has appeared in Europe or this country which is destined to be so interesting and valuable to sericiculturists, as the Propagateur. 1892 W. Crookes tr. R. von Wagner Man. Chem. Technol. 804 Sericiculturists become sufficiently adepts..to be able to select a sufficient number of cocoons of each sex. 1960 Entomol. Rev. 39 ii. 334/1 The great practical and theoretical importance of entomopathogenic viruses has drawn the attention of entomologists, sericiculturists, apiculturists, and virologists. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1839 |
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