a. Obs. [f. L. bombȳcin-us silken + -OUS.]
1. Made of silk, silken.
1656. in Blount, Glossogr.
1721. in Bailey.
2. Of a pale yellow color, like the silk-worm before it spins.
1794–6. E. Darwin, Zoon. (1801), II. 5. What is peculiar to this disease … is the bombycinous colour of the skin, which like that of full-grown silkworms, has a degree of transparency with a yellow tint.
1823. T. Sandwith, Venous Congest., in Trans. Apothecaries, I. 224. Her face had that pale sickly hue which Darwin calls bombycinous.
