Silkworm synonyms

sĭlk'wûrm'

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giant silkworm
larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon
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wild wilkworm
larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon
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froghopper (related)
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larva (related)
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caterpillar (related)
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Silkworm Sentence Examples

  • Among the insects the bee and the silkworm are the most useful.

  • The common silkworm produces as a rule only one generation during the year; but there are races in cultivation which are bivoltine, or twogenerationed, and some are multivoltine.

  • Pasteur prosecuted his investigations into the silkworm disease at Alais, and the town has dedicated a bust to his memory.

  • But the first notice of the silkworm in Western literature occurs in Aristotle, Hist.

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