Definitions for tussah

tussah tus·sah

Spelling: [tuhs-uh]
IPA: /ˈtʌs ə/

Tussah is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in tussah (ahsstu).

Definitions for tussah

noun

  1. a tan silk from India. Compare Shantung (def 2a).
  2. the silkworm of an oriental moth of the genus Antheraea, as A. mylitta, that produces this silk.

Origin of tussah

1580-90; earlier tusser Hindi tasar shuttle Sanskrit tasara, trasara kind of silkworm

Examples for tussah

The China silk was dissolved by this reagent; tussah silk and the lustra-celluloses entirely resisted its action.

Over this is placed one braid of tussah silk and an outer braid of cotton.

But give 13-year-old tussah Heera credit: How would you do on national television if you were asked to spell “herniorrhaphy”?

Bengal has furnished the tussah moth, which lives in India on the oak and a variety of other trees.

The silk produced by the wild worms of China and India is called “tussah” (or “tussur”).

Word Value for tussah
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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