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tensan

tensan noun: a silk produced by the Japanese oak silkmoth (Antherea yamamai).

Noun

tensan (uncountable)

  1. A silk produced by the Japanese oak silkmoth (Antherea yamamai).

Origin of tensan

From Japanese 天蚕 (tensan, “tensan moth; tensan silk”).

Questions about tensan

What does tensan mean?
Tensan means a silk produced by the Japanese oak silkmoth (Antherea yamamai).
What part of speech is tensan?
Tensan is a noun.

Words near tensan in the dictionary

  1. Tenrikyoists
  2. Tenrikyō
  3. tens
  4. tens across the board
  5. tensal
  6. tensan
  7. Tensas Parish
  8. Tensaw
  9. Tensaws
  10. tenscore
  11. tense

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