/tus"euh/ , n.
1. a tan silk from India. Cf. Shantung (def. 3).
2. the silkworm of an oriental moth of the genus Antheraea, as A. mylitta, that produces this silk.
Also, tusseh, tusser /tus"euhr/ , tussor, tussore, tussur . Also called wild silk .
[ 1580-90; earlier tusser tasar shuttle tasara, trasara kind of silkworm ]