Definition of "sericulture" []

• The cultivation of silk (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Romans called the land beyond the Ganges 'Seres' that later the name sericulture became the term applied to silk-raising. ""
• "The 5,000-year-old process, known as sericulture, provides over 300,000 tonnes of silk per year to the commodity textile and medical suture industries."
• "Vocabulary enriching lyric: "sericulture" The cultivation of silkworms for silk"