Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Silken; silk.
- Of cotton, or of paper made of cotton.
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- adjective Pertaining to
silkworms ; bombic.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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There is another manuscript, written on bombycine, in the Bodleian
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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1920-1964 Os vespine wasp 1843 - bombycine silkworm 1884 OW W culicine mosquito
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