Mylitta


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Noun1.Mylitta - Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and warMylitta - Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte
Babylon - the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia
Assyria - an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq
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The custom required the men, as they cast their money, to say "I demand thee in the name of Mylitta [the Assyrian name of Aphrodite]," after which it would be a sin for the woman to refuse.
The mouth parts sensillae in the larvae of tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta (D) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae).
Films and scaffold have been successfully made using a mixture of gelatine and sericin extracted from silkworm Antheraea mylitta. Fabricated supports have evenly distributed pores, good compressive strength and high swellability.
Phylogenetic analysis indicated that ApDef gene had the closest genetic distance with Antheraea mylitta Defense.
At the university there, coin-sized disks are being produced from the cocoon of the tasar silkworm (Antheraea mylitta).
and Kundu, S.C., 2007, "Purification and biochemical characterization of a 70 kDa sericin from tropical tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta," C.B.P., Part B., 147, pp.
Genetic variability within and among three ecoraces of the tasar silkworm Antheraea mylitta Drury, as revealed by ISSR and RAPD markers.