Noun: sericin
| Singular | sericin |
| Plural | sericins |
Sample Sentences
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Processing the harvested cocoons begins with grading and then boiling them in soapy water to soften the sericin that binds the fibers together. [2026, Elise Young, “Yagaa: Reviving Sericulture in Southern Mexico”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 16:]
Nouns inflected like sericin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From a derivative of Latin sēricus.
Verbs referencing "sericin"
Finnish Nouns
serisiini.