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Definition of Silkworms

1. silkworm [n] - See also: silkworm

Medical Definition of Silkworms

1. Moths of the family bombycidae of the order lepidoptera, called silkworm moths. The family contains a single species, bombyx mori from the greek for silkworm + mulberry tree (on which it feeds). A native of asia, it is sometimes reared in this country. It has long been raised for its silk and after centuries of domestication it probably does not exist in nature. It is used extensively in experimental genetics. (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Silkworms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the by George Richardson Porter (1831)
"RECENT ATTEMPT TO REAR silkworms IN ENGLAND. ... IT must always be a subject of anxious attention with the rearer of silkworms so to time the hatching of ..."

2. The Resources of California by John Shertzer Hittell (1867)
"silkworms.—A few silkworms have been hatched in California, and have been found ... The silkworms should be kept at a temperature of about 75° Fahrenheit, ..."

3. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1857)
"silkworms arc said to have l>ccn originally imported from China. ... I am not satisfied that the present domestic races of silkworms are not originally wild ..."

4. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1883)
"The silkworms hatched out, and flourished in their new home, and from Constantinople the cultivation of the mulberry and raising of silkworms spread through ..."

5. Microbes, Ferments and Moulds by Édouard Louis Trouessart (1886)
"The silkworms on which the dust falls do not appear to be diseased, ... It is difficult to free the breeding- houses from all the silkworms which die in ..."

6. In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn (1899)
"silkworms i I WAS puzzled by the phrase, " silkworm- moth eyebrow," in an ... So I went to my friend Niimi, who keeps silkworms, to ask for an explanation. ..."

7. Essays on the Floating Matter of the Air: In Relation to Putrefaction and by John Tyndall (1882)
"Parasitic Diseases of silkworms. Pasteur's Researches. It is admitted on all hands ... For fifteen years a plague had raged among the silkworms of France. ..."

8. Essays on the Floating-matter of the Air in Relation to Putrefaction and by John Tyndall (1882)
"... Parasitic Diseases of silkworms. Pasteur's Researches. It is admitted on all hands that some diseases are the product of parasitic growth. ..."

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