silkwormn.

Brit.

/ˈsɪlkwəːm/, U.S.

/ˈsɪlkˌwərm/

Forms: Also Old English siolucwyrm, seolcwyrm, Middle English sylke-wyrme; Middle English selke-, sylk(e)-, cylke-, Middle English–1600s silkeworme, etc.

Etymology: < silk n. and adj. + worm n. In older use frequently written as two words, and from c1600 often with hyphen.

a. The caterpillar of the mulberry-feeding moth Bombyx (or Sericaria) mori, originally a native of northern China, which on changing into the pupa state spins a cocoon made of silken filament; also, the caterpillar of any bombycid or other moth which thus yields silken cocoons of commercial value.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Bombycidae > genus Bombyx > silk moth > caterpillar of bombyx mori or silkworm

worma900

silkwormc1000

bombyxa1398

spinner1598

Serian worm1633

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 151 Bombix, seolc~wyrm.

c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 360 Bombix, siolucwyrm, oððe sidwyrm.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. xcix Leues of hyze beri tren ben grete and brode,..and gladly wormes eten þerof: and so silke wormes ben beste fed and norischid.

c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 643 Hic bombex, sylkworme.

a1450 Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 26 A bayte that bredyth on an oke leyf & a sylke worme and a cod worme togyder.

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 196 We call them in Englishe Silke Wormes, of which at this day the Spaniardes have greate plentye.

1599 T. Moufet (title) Silkewormes and their Flies, lively described in verse.

1622 J. Bonoeil Treat. Art of making Silke 1 in King James VI & I Gracious Let. to Earle of South-Hampton This discourse is therefore touching the feeding and intertainement of your Silke wormes.

1677 A. Horneck Great Law Consideration (1704) i. 8 Their prophets,..like silkworms, spun out their own bowels.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Silk The Work of 12 Spiders, therefore, only equal that of one Silk Worm.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xl. 71 Till the reign of Justinian, the silk-worms who feed on the leaves of the white mulberry-tree, were confined to China.

1836 Penny Cycl. V. 109/1 During the time of spinning the cocoon the silkworm decreases in length very considerably.

1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. xi. 303 A plague had raged among the silkworms of France.

in extended use.1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 266/1 An Improved Machine called the Silkworm, for the purpose of Spinning, Twisting, and Doubling Silk.1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 169 A man should not be a silk-worm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

b. One who wears a silken gown or dress. Used contemptuously. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing other clothing > one who

Court-mantlec1367

Sunday citizen1598

longcoat1603

lettice ruffa1625

silkworma1625

copester1637

short-coat1649

Scotch-sleeve?1706

Evite1713

uniform1786

nude1810

blue-stockinged1818

waistcoateer1825

padder1828

stook of duds1834

bloomer1851

sleeve1851

shirt1860

shirtwaister1900

DJ1926

rat-catcher1928

sweater girl1940

zoot-suiter1942

Edwardian1954

penguin1967

overcoat1969

a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Honest Mans Fortune v. iv, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Xxxxx3^v/2 Thou silke worm. What hast thou in thee to deserve this woman?

a1704 T. Brown Contin. Quaker's Serm. in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) i. 155 Root out of them [sc. thy churches] all Anti-Christian Tyranny of most abominable Bishops; let not those Silk-worms and Magpies have Dominion over us.

1820 W. Scott Monastery II. iii^*. 141 Shall that English silk-worm presume to beard me in my father's house?

1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) ii. ii. 64 Better..call A Tartar lord, than these swoln silkworms masters!

†c. A woman given to frequenting drapers' shops and examining goods without buying. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > shopper > window-shopper

silkworm1712

window-shopper1883

looky-loo1977

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 454. ⁋5 The Silk-worms are, it seems, indulged by the Tradesmen; for tho' they never buy, they are ever talking of new Silks, Laces, and Ribbands, and serve the Owners in getting them Customers.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

silkworm breeder n.

ΚΠ

1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 596/2 The silkworm breeder allows a few of the pupæ to develop into moths.

silkworm disease n.

ΚΠ

1887 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VI. (at cited word) Silkworm disease.

silkworm egg n.

ΚΠ

1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 251 An ounce of silk-worm eggs in France is worth two francs and a half.

silkworm-like adj.

ΚΠ

1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. i. ii. 84 I..Silk-worm-like, so long within have wrought, That I am lost in my own Webb of thought.

silkworm shed n.

ΚΠ

1898 Folk-Lore 9 8 The same formula must be used on entering a silkworm-shed.

C2.

silkworm gut n. a fine, strong, light gut, made of the drawn-out glands of the silkworm (see gut n. 4d).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > gut > types of

catgut1599

whale-guts1780

silkworm gut1833

gut1834

whipcord1880

1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling 66 Hook-lines..are usually made of silk-worm gut.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 349 The sutures may be silk, kangaroo tendon, or silkworm gut.

silkworm moth n. one or other of various bombycid moths, whose larvæ produce cocoons.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Bombycidae > genus Bombyx > silk moth

silk-fly1599

silkworm moth1815

silk moth1826

silk-spinner1868

1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. x. 335 About the year 550..two monks..procured in India the eggs of the silk-worm moth.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 946 The transmission..of the sporozoa of pebrine from the silkworm moth to its eggs and caterpillar.

silkworm rot n. (see quot. 1855).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > fungus causing disease in animals

silkworm rot1855

Saprolegnia1866

ray fungus1884

1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Silk-worm rot, a fungous plant, the Botrytis bassiana, which kills silk~worms in great numbers.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	silkworm
释义	silkwormn. Brit. /ˈsɪlkwəːm/, U.S. /ˈsɪlkˌwərm/ Forms: Also Old English siolucwyrm, seolcwyrm, Middle English sylke-wyrme; Middle English selke-, sylk(e)-, cylke-, Middle English–1600s silkeworme, etc. Etymology: < silk n. and adj. + worm n. In older use frequently written as two words, and from c1600 often with hyphen. a. The caterpillar of the mulberry-feeding moth Bombyx (or Sericaria) mori, originally a native of northern China, which on changing into the pupa state spins a cocoon made of silken filament; also, the caterpillar of any bombycid or other moth which thus yields silken cocoons of commercial value. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Bombycidae > genus Bombyx > silk moth > caterpillar of bombyx mori or silkworm worma900 silkwormc1000 bombyxa1398 spinner1598 Serian worm1633 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 151 Bombix, seolc~wyrm. c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 360 Bombix, siolucwyrm, oððe sidwyrm. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. xcix Leues of hyze beri tren ben grete and brode,..and gladly wormes eten þerof: and so silke wormes ben beste fed and norischid. c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 643 Hic bombex, sylkworme. a1450 Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 26 A bayte that bredyth on an oke leyf & a sylke worme and a cod worme togyder. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 196 We call them in Englishe Silke Wormes, of which at this day the Spaniardes have greate plentye. 1599 T. Moufet (title) Silkewormes and their Flies, lively described in verse. 1622 J. Bonoeil Treat. Art of making Silke 1 in King James VI & I Gracious Let. to Earle of South-Hampton This discourse is therefore touching the feeding and intertainement of your Silke wormes. 1677 A. Horneck Great Law Consideration (1704) i. 8 Their prophets,..like silkworms, spun out their own bowels. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Silk The Work of 12 Spiders, therefore, only equal that of one Silk Worm. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xl. 71 Till the reign of Justinian, the silk-worms who feed on the leaves of the white mulberry-tree, were confined to China. 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 109/1 During the time of spinning the cocoon the silkworm decreases in length very considerably. 1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. xi. 303 A plague had raged among the silkworms of France. in extended use.1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 266/1 An Improved Machine called the Silkworm, for the purpose of Spinning, Twisting, and Doubling Silk.1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits x. 169 A man should not be a silk-worm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars. b. One who wears a silken gown or dress. Used contemptuously. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing other clothing > one who Court-mantlec1367 Sunday citizen1598 longcoat1603 lettice ruffa1625 silkworma1625 copester1637 short-coat1649 Scotch-sleeve?1706 Evite1713 uniform1786 nude1810 blue-stockinged1818 waistcoateer1825 padder1828 stook of duds1834 bloomer1851 sleeve1851 shirt1860 shirtwaister1900 DJ1926 rat-catcher1928 sweater girl1940 zoot-suiter1942 Edwardian1954 penguin1967 overcoat1969 a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Honest Mans Fortune v. iv, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Xxxxx3^v/2 Thou silke worm. What hast thou in thee to deserve this woman? a1704 T. Brown Contin. Quaker's Serm. in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) i. 155 Root out of them [sc. thy churches] all Anti-Christian Tyranny of most abominable Bishops; let not those Silk-worms and Magpies have Dominion over us. 1820 W. Scott Monastery II. iii^. 141 Shall that English silk-worm presume to beard me in my father's house? 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero* (2nd issue) ii. ii. 64 Better..call A Tartar lord, than these swoln silkworms masters! †c. A woman given to frequenting drapers' shops and examining goods without buying. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > shopper > window-shopper silkworm1712 window-shopper1883 looky-loo1977 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 454. ⁋5 The Silk-worms are, it seems, indulged by the Tradesmen; for tho' they never buy, they are ever talking of new Silks, Laces, and Ribbands, and serve the Owners in getting them Customers. Compounds C1. General attributive. silkworm breeder n. ΚΠ 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 596/2 The silkworm breeder allows a few of the pupæ to develop into moths. silkworm disease n. ΚΠ 1887 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VI. (at cited word) Silkworm disease. silkworm egg n. ΚΠ 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 251 An ounce of silk-worm eggs in France is worth two francs and a half. silkworm-like adj. ΚΠ 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. i. ii. 84 I..Silk-worm-like, so long within have wrought, That I am lost in my own Webb of thought. silkworm shed n. ΚΠ 1898 Folk-Lore 9 8 The same formula must be used on entering a silkworm-shed. C2. silkworm gut n. a fine, strong, light gut, made of the drawn-out glands of the silkworm (see gut n. 4d). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > gut > types of catgut1599 whale-guts1780 silkworm gut1833 gut1834 whipcord1880 1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling 66 Hook-lines..are usually made of silk-worm gut. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 349 The sutures may be silk, kangaroo tendon, or silkworm gut. silkworm moth n. one or other of various bombycid moths, whose larvæ produce cocoons. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Bombycidae > genus Bombyx > silk moth silk-fly1599 silkworm moth1815 silk moth1826 silk-spinner1868 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. x. 335 About the year 550..two monks..procured in India the eggs of the silk-worm moth. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 946 The transmission..of the sporozoa of pebrine from the silkworm moth to its eggs and caterpillar. silkworm rot n. (see quot. 1855). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > fungus causing disease in animals silkworm rot1855 Saprolegnia1866 ray fungus1884 1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Silk-worm rot, a fungous plant, the Botrytis bassiana, which kills silk~worms in great numbers. 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