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Cocoonery :: Cocoonery (n.) A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons..

Filature :: Filature (n.) A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons..

Cocoon :: Cocoon (n.) The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs.

Silk :: Silk (n.) The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori..

Filature :: Filature (n.) A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk..

Kell :: Kell (n.) The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect.

Cocoon :: Cocoon (n.) The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms..

Cocoon :: Cocoon (n.) An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.

Spin :: Spin (v. t.) To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc..

Dupion :: Dupion (n.) A double cocoon, made by two silkworms..

Silkworm :: Silkworm (n.) The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa..

Cappadine :: Cappadine (n.) A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag..

Tussah Silk :: Tussah silk () A silk cloth made from the cocoons of a caterpillar other than the common silkworm, much used in Bengal and China..

Trehala :: Trehala (n.) An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, L. nidificans, etc.) which feeds on the foliage of a variety of thistle. It is used as an article of food, and is called also nest sugar..

Promethea :: Promethea (n.) A large American bombycid moth (Callosamia promethea). Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band..

Gut :: Gut (n.) The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line..

Cocoon :: Cocoon (n.) The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa.

Bottom :: Bottom (n.) A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

Ant Egg :: Ant egg () One of the small white egg-shaped pupae or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs..

Knubs :: Knubs (n. pl.) Waste silk formed in winding off the threads from a cocoon.

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