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moriculture

moriculture noun: the production of mulberry leaves to provide feed for silkworms.

Noun

moriculture (uncountable)

  1. The production of mulberry leaves to provide feed for silkworms.
    • The Ming-Qing dynasties developed and spread the techniques of growing dwarf mulberry trees which facilitated leaf picking and favored leaf growing: moriculture became a proto-specialized activity.2020, Mau Chuan-hui, “Sericulture and its Complementary: Wild Silk Production in China’s Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”, in Seri-Technics, Max Planck Research Library for the History and...

Origin of moriculture

From Latin morī, genetive of mōrus (“black mulberry tree”), + culture.

Questions about moriculture

What does moriculture mean?
Moriculture means the production of mulberry leaves to provide feed for silkworms.
What part of speech is moriculture?
Moriculture is a noun.

Words near moriculture in the dictionary

  1. Moriches
  2. Morici
  3. moricin
  4. Moricis
  5. moricizine
  6. moriculture
  7. morid
  8. morids
  9. Moridunian
  10. morient
  11. Morier

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