Silkworms

Word SILKWORMS
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Definitions and meanings of "Silkworms"

What do we mean by silkworms?

Any of various caterpillars of moths that produce silk cocoons, especially Bombyx mori, the source of most commercial silk.

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The word "silkworms" in example sentences

Mulberry shoots will produce sufficient foliage to maintain silkworms within three years after planting. ❋ Unknown (1888)

And afterwards, as if giving a particular direction to the above general statement, he adds: Those strange and mystical transmigrations that I have observed in silkworms turned my philosophy into divinity. ❋ Unknown (1857)

The so-called silkworms, like the bees, originated in Asia, and have long been in the care of man. ❋ Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1873)

When I do a Google translation for something about the German version of The Running Man, 'silkworms' always comes out as 'silk crawler type vehicles'. ❋ Lili (2009)

On the other hand, those caterpillars known as 'silkworms' make a dense cocoon of pure silk, consisting of two layers, the outer of coarse and the inner of fine threads. ❋ Unknown (1902)

I found and bought a bottle of persimmon vinegar (it was right next to the cans of boiled silkworms) ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the Saumur region of France there are over a thousand miles of underground tunnels and thousands of caves, known as "troglodytes," used as homes, hotels, restaurants, museums, wineries, farms silkworms, mushrooms, snails and even a disco and a zoo. ❋ Kirsten Dirksen (2012)

Audrun and Aramon Lunel grew up in one of these houses, which was once a family business that cultivated grain and silkworms but which has slowly collapsed into disrepair, not unlike the siblings themselves. ❋ Donna Rifkind (2010)

Those silkworms worked remarkably fast, and it didn't take so much patience after all. ❋ James B. Stewart (2010)

So he sent her spools of silk from silkworms he had genetically engineered in a fashion similar to the goats. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Softie Kumi Kookoon, a California company specializing in silk bedding, uses "Grade A" mulberry silk their silkworms are fed only mulberry leaves, just as those of Lady Hsi-Ling-Shi. ❋ Aleksandra Crapanzano (2012)

For more than 2,000 years, silk was reserved for emperors and the highest of dignitaries, and smuggling silkworms out of China was a crime punishable by death. ❋ Aleksandra Crapanzano (2012)

So she raised silkworms, reeled silk thread off the cocoons, dyed the thread, hand-wove the thread into cloth by herself, and then tailored the clothes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Silk, of course, is a global commodity—a very expensive one right now as it's been a bad year for silkworms and prices are high even in the discount districts—and this book offers a window into the highest echelon of silk purveying. ❋ Laura Jacobs (2011)

For example, GM silkworms are able to produce pharmaceutical and industrial proteins, like those used to create a particularly strong spider silk. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"READING SILK: A LIVING SCULPTURE," installation featuring spinning silkworms and spun silk forms by students and teachers, led by artist Elsabe Dixon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Phil Oakey and company stand up for animal rights and protests against the mass exploitation of silkworms. ❋ Eeleen Lee (2010)

Vocabulary enriching lyric: "sericulture" The cultivation of silkworms for silk ❋ Eeleen Lee (2010)

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