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- noun Plural form of
silkworm .
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Examples
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Mulberry shoots will produce sufficient foliage to maintain silkworms within three years after planting.
Six Months in Mexico 1888
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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.
Parables From Nature 1857
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The so-called silkworms, like the bees, originated in Asia, and have long been in the care of man.
Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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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'.
Ich Bin Ein Autorin lili 2009
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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.
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I found and bought a bottle of persimmon vinegar (it was right next to the cans of boiled silkworms)
Day 5 In Chicago: Ted Goes Grocery Shopping | WindsorEats.com FoodBlog 2010
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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: Cave House in Loire Is Charming Bioclimatic Troglodyte Home (VIDEO) Kirsten Dirksen 2012
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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: Cave House in Loire Is Charming Bioclimatic Troglodyte Home (VIDEO) Kirsten Dirksen 2012
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So he sent her spools of silk from silkworms he had genetically engineered in a fashion similar to the goats.
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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.
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