Usually means: Insects that produce silk fibers.
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  1. silkworms: Merriam-Webster
  2. silkworms: Collins English Dictionary
  3. silkworms: Vocabulary.com
  4. Silkworms, silkworms: Wordnik
  5. silkworms: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. silkworms: Wiktionary
  7. silkworms: Dictionary.com
  8. Silkworms: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (silkworm)

▸ noun:  Any of various caterpillars of moths that produce silk cocoons, especially Bombyx mori, the source of most commercial silk.
▸ Also see silkworm


Opposite:
wool worms, cotton worms, nylon worms

Adjectives:
wild, young, healthy, diseased, many, rear, giant, own, chinese, dead, mulberry

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Opposite:
wool worms, cotton worms, nylon worms

Adjectives:
wild, young, healthy, diseased, many, rear, giant, own, chinese, dead, mulberry




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