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Categories: Insects as food, Bombycidae, Articles with 'species' microformats, Traditional Chinese medicine, Sericulture

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 WordNet 3.0

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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 WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

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

Caterpillar. Wiktionary (translation)

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