Definition of "bombycine" [bombycine]

• Pertaining to silkworms; bombic. (adjective)

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• "Montfaucon, who on account of his diligence and the extent of his researches is great authority, wrote a dissertation to prove that charta bombycine, cotton paper, was discovered in the empire of the east toward the end of the ninth or beginning of the tenth century."
• "There is another manuscript, written on bombycine, in the Bodleian"
• "1920-1964 Os vespine wasp 1843 - bombycine silkworm 1884 OW W culicine mosquito"