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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

... his shadowy springs Sweet waters shake a trembling sound, There flit the hoot-owl's silent wings, There hath his web the silkworm wound. ...

— Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes - Volume II. • Walter de la Mare

... while there that bad news came to him from Corsica. His family was again in trouble. His mother had tried silkworm raising, and failed; his uncle the canon was very sick; his good friend and the patron of the family, General Marbeuf, was dead; his brothers were unsuccessful in getting positions or employment; and something must be done to help ...

— The Boy Life of Napoleon - Afterwards Emperor Of The French • Eugenie Foa

... the 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 • Gilbert White

... Potomac. A highly interesting corner of the garden was that given over to the group of mulberry-trees, which had been imported from England by Thomas Hancock, the uncle of John, he being, with others of his time, immensely interested in the culture of the silkworm. ...

— The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees • Mary Caroline Crawford

... her excellences stand in her so silently, as if they had stolen upon her without her knowledge. The lining of her apparel (which is herself) is far better than outsides of tissue; for though she be not arrayed in the spoil of the silkworm, she is decked in innocency, a far better wearing. She doth not, with lying long in bed, spoil both her complexion and conditions. Nature hath taught her, too immoderate sleep is rust to the soul: she rises therefore with chanticleer, her dame's cock, and at night makes the lamb ...

— Lectures on the English Poets - Delivered at the Surrey Institution • William Hazlitt

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