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    SILKWORM

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    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 silkplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("silkworm" is a kind of...):

    caterpillar (a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth)

    Meronyms (parts of "silkworm"):

    sericterium; serictery; silk gland (silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders)

    Holonyms ("silkworm" is a member of...):

    Bombyx; genus Bombyx (type genus of the Bombycidae: Chinese silkworm moth)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoonplay

    Synonyms:

    giant silkworm; silkworm; wild wilkworm

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("silkworm" is a kind of...):

    caterpillar (a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth)

    Meronyms (parts of "silkworm"):

    sericterium; serictery; silk gland (silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "silkworm"):

    ailanthus silkworm; Samia cynthia (large green silkworm of the cynthia moth)

    Holonyms ("silkworm" is a member of...):

    family Saturniidae; Saturniidae (important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known)

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