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Bombyx mori
(redirected from Silk worm)

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Noun1.Bombyx mori - stocky creamy-white Asiatic moth found almost entirely under human careBombyx mori - stocky creamy-white Asiatic moth found almost entirely under human care; the source of most of the silk commerce
bombycid, bombycid moth, silkworm moth - moderate-sized Asiatic moth whose larvae feed on mulberry leaves and produce silk
Bombyx, genus Bombyx - type genus of the Bombycidae: Chinese silkworm moth


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esides, saplings of Mulberry trees, on which the silk worms are grown, have not been planted.
Silk is carefully woven from millions of tiny silk cocoons that have been spun by real silk worms, and takes a long time to create a sheet of fabric big enough to make a silk tie
Secretions of silk worms or insect larvae forms into an elastic and strong thread produce this so-called fibroin.
 
 
 
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