silkworm

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noun

1. the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber;
the principal source of commercial silk (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
caterpillar
• Member Holonyms:
Bombyx, genus Bombyx
• Part Meronyms:
silk gland, serictery, sericterium
2. larva of a saturniid moth;
spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon
• Syn:
giant silkworm, wild wilkworm
• Hypernyms:
caterpillar
• Hyponyms:
ailanthus silkworm, Samia cynthia
• Member Holonyms:
Saturniidae, family Saturniidae
• Part Meronyms:
silk gland, serictery, sericterium

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  giant silkworm, wild wilkworm