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Caterpillar that makes valuable cocoons
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silkworm
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Silkworm was an American indie rock band active from 1987 to 2005 whose core members were Tim Midyett, Andy Cohen , and Michael Dahlquist . A feature-length documentary, "Couldn't You Wait? The Story of Silkworm", was released in February 2013, featuring ...
Wiktionary
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n. Any of various caterpillars of moths that produce silk cocoons, especially ''Bombyx mori'', the source of most commercial silk.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English seolcwyrm ; see silk + worm (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. hairless white caterpillar of the Chinese silkworm moth; source of most commercial silk larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon [syn: giant silkworm , wild wilkworm ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And the lady dressed by the silkworm was probably oblivious to everything. ▪ In one, a woman harvests silkworms from mulberry leaves in preparation for processing at a nearby mill. ▪ King James offered financial rewards to persuade ...
Usage examples of silkworm.
Three months before I was born, in the aftermath of one of our elaborate Sunday dinners, my grandmother Desdemona Stephanides ordered my brother to get her silkworm box.
Taking the silkworm box out of his hands, she turned back into the kitchen.
Desdemona set the silkworm box on the kitchen table and opened the lid.
Though the silkworm box reappeared now and then, the spoon was no longer among its treasures.
She was in her silkworm cocoonery, high on the slope of Mount Olympus in Asia Minor, when her heart, without warning, missed a beat.
Inside, around the aquamarine fountain, hundreds of stiff, waist-high sacks foamed over with silkworm cocoons.
Under her arm Desdemona also carried her silkworm box containing a few hundred silkworm eggs wrapped in a white cloth.
Desdemona opened her silkworm box and unwrapped the white cloth to check on her eggs.
Princess Si Ling-chi was sitting under a mulberry tree when a silkworm cocoon fell into her teacup.
Anyone who attempted to smuggle silkworm eggs out of China faced punishment of death.
After carrying her silkworm eggs all the way from Bithynios, Desdemona had been forced to dump them out at Ellis Island.
Outside, the Muslim Girls Training and General Civilization Class installed silkworm trays.
Before an audience of intellectuals, Swammerdam cut away the skin of the silkworm to reveal what appeared to be a tiny model of the future moth inside, from proboscis to antennae to folded wings.
Fate in the guise of his old professor, Dumas, called on him and asked him to change himself from a man of science into a silkworm doctor.
It is doubtful at this time if Pasteur could have told a silkworm from an angle worm!