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Silkworm

noun

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.

Larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon. Synonyms: giant silkworm, wild wilkworm.

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"Silkworm" Quotes from Famous Books

... Indian grass was entertaining. I am no angler myself; but inquiring of those that are, what they supposed that part of their tackle to be made of?—they replied, "Of the intestines of a silkworm." ...

— The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 • Gilbert White

... is summed up in that hopeless garment, which unfits the wearer for every pleasure and every duty of modern life. An article of everyday clothing which prevents a man from using his upper limbs, which swathes them up, like a silkworm in its cocoon—can anything more insane be imagined? Wrapped therein for nearly all their lives, the whole race grows round-shouldered; the gastric region, which ought to be protected in this climate of extremes, is exposed; the heating of their heads, night and day, with its hood, cannot but injure ...

— Fountains In The Sand - Rambles Among The Oases Of Tunisia • Norman Douglas

... darting into a bed of strong weeds and entangling the line, so that the heavy clearing ring sent down towards the hook proved inadequate to the task of releasing it, and the line broke, and the fish escaped with at least a yard of shotted silkworm gut hanging ...

— Hollowdell Grange - Holiday Hours in a Country Home • George Manville Fenn

... they are the first I have seen this season. My beautiful, faithful old friend! Springtime! You have brought her to me this year, though I felt her coming days before! I am so happy—can't you see? I feel as though I'd been a silkworm all winter, coiled up in a cocoon, and had now suddenly grown my wings! And I'm going to fly out over this great green carpet, so sweet with its first perfumes! Don't you feel as ...

— The Torrent - Entre Naranjos • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... of something else; she had to find a way to weave the threads into cloth. After many trials, she made a loom—the first that was ever made. She taught others to weave, and soon hundreds of people were making cloth from the threads of the silkworm. ...

— The Child's World - Third Reader • Hetty Browne, Sarah Withers, W.K. Tate

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