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Noun: serictery
  1. Silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders
    "The spider's sericteries produced strong threads for its web";
    - silk gland, sericterium

Derived forms: sericteries

Type of: gland, secretor, secretory organ

Part of: giant silkworm, silkworm, wild silkworm