GIANT SILKWORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does giant silkworm mean? 

• GIANT SILKWORM (noun)
  The noun GIANT SILKWORM has 1 sense:

1. larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon

  Familiarity information: GIANT SILKWORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIANT SILKWORM (noun)

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Meaning:

Larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

giant silkworm; silkworm; wild wilkworm

Hypernyms ("giant silkworm" is a kind of...):

caterpillar (a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth)

Meronyms (parts of "giant silkworm"):

sericterium; serictery; silk gland (silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "giant silkworm"):

ailanthus silkworm; Samia cynthia (large green silkworm of the cynthia moth)

Holonyms ("giant silkworm" is a member of...):

family Saturniidae; Saturniidae (important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known)