Relating to or resembling silk produced by silkworms, especially the mulberry silkworm.
From Latin 'bombycinus,' derived from Greek 'bombyx' (silkworm). The term originally referred specifically to the mulberry silkworm's silk in classical texts.
The ancient Greeks and Romans were absolutely obsessed with silk, and they created this whole vocabulary around it—'bombic' is a fancy way of saying 'silk-like' that almost no one uses anymore!
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