silkworm

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silkworm (enc)

Noun	1.	silkworm - hairless white caterpillar of the Chinese silkworm moth; source of most commercial silk Bombyx, genus Bombyx - type genus of the Bombycidae: Chinese silkworm moth caterpillar - a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth sericterium, serictery, silk gland - silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders
	2.	silkworm - larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon giant silkworm, wild wilkworm family Saturniidae, Saturniidae - important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known ailanthus silkworm, Samia cynthia - large green silkworm of the cynthia moth caterpillar - a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth sericterium, serictery, silk gland - silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders

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