antheraea mylitta

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   oriental moth that produces brownish silk

   Synonymstussahtussehtussurtussoretusser

   Broadersaturniid

   Part ofAntheraea

Questions about antheraea mylitta

What does antheraea mylitta mean?

antheraea mylitta means "oriental moth that produces brownish silk".

What is another word for antheraea mylitta?

Close synonyms include tussah, tusseh, tussur, tussore, tusser. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is antheraea mylitta a common word?

antheraea mylitta is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.