Bombycine

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Pertaining to silkworms; bombic.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Silken; silk.
  • Of cotton, or of paper made of cotton.
  • Word Usage
    "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."