Crossword-Solution: SILKWORM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Silkworm | n. | The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “SILKWORM”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| INDUSTRIAL worm | 1 answer |
| Important Asian animal | 1 answer |
| Important Asian caterpillar | 1 answer |
| It's a caterpillar | 1 answer |
| Larva of a moth. | 1 answer |
| MULBERRY leaf-eating worm | 1 answer |
| Source of soft fabric | 1 answer |
| caterpillar that spins a cocoon of silk | 1 answer |
| Eri | 2 answers |
| Domesticated insect | 2 answers |
| bombyx | 3 answers |
| COCOON dweller | 4 answers |
| Caterpillar | 16 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "SILKWORM"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
9 +1
New Suggestion for "SILKWORM"
Related word tools
Sentences with SILKWORM (5)
And arborets of jointed stone were there, And plants of fibres fine as silkworm’s thread; Yea, beautiful as mermaid’s golden hair Upon the waves dispread.
The Chinese were doubtless among the first who used the thread spun by the silkworm for the purposes of clothing.
Each body of Japanese troops moved forward like a silkworm, leaving behind it a glistening strand of red copper wire.
When spinning the silkworm does not eat, therefore all we had to do was to watch that they did not get away.
The northern climates are less propitious to the education of the silkworm; but the industry of France and England is supplied and enriched by the productions of Italy and China.
Quotes with SILKWORM (3)
Never say, "O Lord, I am a miserable sinner." Who will help you? You are the help of the universe. What in this universe can help you? What can prevail over you? You are the God of the universe; where can you seek for help? Never help came from anywhere but from yourself. In your ignorance, every prayer that you made and that was answered, you thought was answered by some Being, but you answered the prayer yourself unknowingly. The help came from yourself, and you fondly imag…
The real trouble is this: giving expression to thought by the observable medium of words is like the work of the silkworm. In being made into silk, the material achieves its value. But in the light of day it stiffens; it becomes something alien, no longer malleable. True, we can then more easily and freely recall the same thought, but perhaps we can never experience it again in its original freshness.
According to an ancient Chinese legend, one day in the year 240 B.C., Princess Si Ling-chi was sitting under a mulberry tree when a silkworm cocoon fell into her teacup. When she tried to remove it, she noticed that the cocoon had begun to unravel in the hot liquid. She handed the loose end to her maidservant and told her to walk. The servant went out of the princess's chamber, and into the palace courtyard, and through the palace gates, and out of the Forbidden City, and int…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1962–2021).