Crossword clues for silkworm
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caterpillar \Cat"er*pil`lar\, n. [OE. catyrpel, corrupted fr. OF. chatepelouse, or cate pelue, fr. chate, F. chatte, she-cat, fem. of chat, L. catus + L. pilosus hairy, or F. pelu hairy, fr. L. pilus hair. See Cat, and Pile hair.]
(Zo["o]l.) The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.
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(Bot.) A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars.
Caterpillar catcher, or Caterpillar eater (Zo["o]l.), a bird belonging to the family of Shrikes, which feeds on caterpillars. The name is also given to several other birds.
Caterpillar hunter (Zo["o]l.), any species of beetles of the genus Callosoma and other allied genera of the family Carabid[ae] which feed habitually upon caterpillars.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. Any of various caterpillars of moths that produce silk cocoons, especially ''Bombyx mori'', the source of most commercial silk.
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]
Wikipedia
The Shang You or SY-series , and the Hai Ying or HY-series were early Chinese anti-ship missiles. They were derived from the Soviet P-15 Termit missile.
The HY-1 and HY-2 received the NATO reporting name Silkworm. However, to confuse matters, Western media also referred to the SY-series, and its export derivatives, the Fei Long or FL-series , as Silkworms.
The silkworm (Bombyx mori) is the larva or caterpillar of a moth that is very important economically as the producer of silk.
Silkworm or The Silkworm may also refer to:
- Silkworm (missile), a Chinese-built anti-ship cruise missile
- Silkworm (band), an indie rock band
- Silkworm (video game), a sidescrolling video game
- Brocade Communications Systems Brocade SilkWorm (computing), a make of fibre channel network switch
- The Silkworm, a 2014 mystery novel written by J. K. Rowling under the pen-name "Robert Galbraith"
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 interviews with Jeff Tweedy ( Wilco), Steve Albini ( Big Black, Electrical Audio), Stephen Malkmus ( Pavement), Gerard Cosloy ( Matador Records), Clint Conley ( Mission of Burma) and other notable admirers. It is currently available streaming and as a DRM free download from their official website.
A remastered and expanded 2x12" + CD edition of the third Silkworm album " Libertine" including the group's "Marco Collins Sessions" and two additional tracks was issued by the label Comedy Minus One in May 2014.
Silkworm is a classic side scrolling shooter, developed by Tecmo and first released for arcade in 1988. In 1989 it was ported to the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and NES (1990) systems by The Sales Curve and released by Virgin Mastertronic.
Silkworm also spawned what many consider to be a spiritual successor to the game - SWIV. While SWIV was not a direct sequel, it followed the same core gameplay design of a helicopter/jeep team, albeit as a vertically scrolling shooter instead of a horizontally scrolling one. SWIV was described in the game's manual to mean both "Special Weapons Intercept Vehicles" and "Silkworm IV".
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!