SERICULTURIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sericulturist mean? 

• SERICULTURIST (noun)
  The noun SERICULTURIST has 1 sense:

1. a producer of raw silk

  Familiarity information: SERICULTURIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERICULTURIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A producer of raw silk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("sericulturist" is a kind of...):

manufacturer; producer (someone who manufactures something)

Derivation:

sericulture (the production of raw silk by raising silkworms)

sericulture (raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk)