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Overview of noun silkworm

The noun silkworm has 2 senses


  • silkworm -- (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)

  • silkworm, giant silkworm, wild wilkworm -- (larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon)