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单词 sericipary
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sericiparyadj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: Latin sēricum , -parus , -y suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin sēricum silk (see Seric adj.) + -parus (see -parous comb. form) + -y suffix1, after French séricipare (1864 or earlier). N.E.D. (1912) gives the pronunciation as (serisi·pări) /sɛrɪˈsɪpərɪ/.
Entomology. Obsolete. rare.
Of a gland in a silkworm: producing silk.
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1868 P. M. Duncan tr. L. Figuier Insect World 223 This is the apparatus which secretes the silk; it is the double sericipary gland [Fr. la double glande séricipare].
1869 Who were First Weavers? ii. 45 This is known as the ‘double sericipary gland’. Each gland consists of a tube, divided into three distinct parts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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