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Definition of Bombyxes
1. bombyx [n] - See also: bombyx
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bombyxes
Literary usage of Bombyxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1862)
"... the bombyxes very bad stomach-aches indeed, and often ended in the early death
of the most promising specimens ; besides this, they forgot to parboil ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"... ere his name had been on the rolls of the tax-collector of the bombyxes two
hours. Each day brought a fresh installment of these interesting reptiles, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1889)
"... feeling for the holes, to stop and open them when they may wish, have contrived
subsidiary projections and bombyxes (in/>op/a'ois lege ..."
4. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889): ...edited by Sir by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1890)
"... feeling for the holes, to stop and open them when they may wish, have contrived
subsidiary projections and bombyxes ..."
5. Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition by United States Commission to the Paris Exposition, 1867 (1870)
"Bees, silk-worms, and various bombyxes, cochineal, insects for producing lac,
&c.; apparatus for breeding silkworms, bees, &c. ..."
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