Silk, too, is manufactured from vegetable matter, independent of the silkworm, which is now seen only in museums. From Wordnik.com. ["The Moon Woman" by Minna Irving, part 3] Reference
"I didn't know there was more than one kind of silkworm!" exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Silk] Reference
The silk, according to Pliny, was the produce of a large kind of silkworm not found elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
"silkworm" yielded no results; a broader search for "ancient China" returned 12 sites. From Wordnik.com. [HS Blog - Homeschool Blog] Reference
I think you know that silk is made by the silkworm. From Wordnik.com. [Highroads of Geography] Reference
It's not that you want to be silkworm all your life. From Wordnik.com. [The Thrill of Sky Diving] Reference
One morning she brought in her silkworm box for show-and-tell. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Copy this little drawing of the silkworm and the mulberry leaf. From Wordnik.com. [Highroads of Geography] Reference
The silkworm, when ready to make its cocoon, seeks a suitable support. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887] Reference
Desdemona set the silkworm box on the kitchen table and opened the lid. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Roylei (the Himalaya oak silkworm) is very closely allied to Pernyi, the. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
"Living silkworm cocoons or pupæ, the case to be placed in the ice room.". From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
Taking the silkworm box out of his hands, she turned back into the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
He found that something was wanting to make his silk like that the silkworm produced. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 35, July 8, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference
Desdemona opened her silkworm box and unwrapped the white cloth to check on her eggs. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Anyone who attempted to smuggle silkworm eggs out of China faced punishment of death. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
The principal species is the mulberry silkworm which produces most of the silk in commerce. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
Among our insect friends the leading place belongs either to the honey bee or the silkworm. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
Though the silkworm box reappeared now and then, the spoon was no longer among its treasures. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
The insect Swammerdam used in his experiments back in 1669 was nothing other than a silkworm. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
A French silk merchant travels to Japan to buy silkworm eggs and meets a striking young woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Short of It: Five Books You Do Have Time For] Reference
The annual output of silk, all of which is spun by the silkworm, is worth millions of dollars. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Insects] Reference
At a certain period of its existence the silkworm gives off a secretion of jelly-like substance. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
To give an idea of the great increase of growth in insects, let us take the case of the silkworm. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The Mulberry of Upper Assam occurs likewise, and the leaves supply with food a species of silkworm. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
And these were both ballistic missiles and land-attack cruise missiles, the refit Chinese silkworm. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2003] Reference
Princess Si Ling-chi was sitting under a mulberry tree when a silkworm cocoon fell into her teacup. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
During the reign of Justinian two monks brought the eggs of the silkworm to Byzantium from Serinda in. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
She taught others to weave, and soon hundreds of people were making cloth from the threads of the silkworm. From Wordnik.com. [The Child's World Third Reader] Reference
The spider and the silkworm had yielded their secret to these indefatigable searchers into nature's mysteries. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
DEAR SIR, -- Two years ago I lost Sidney, my pet silkworm, and as I had to take up some hobby I decided on poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917] Reference
A soft, unbleached, washable silk, woven from the cocoons of the wild silkworm, which feeds on the leaves of the scrub oak. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
In the silkworm (fig. 1) the silk is produced by certain peculiar structures, tube-like in shape, known as the silk-glands. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Indeed the larger silkworm moths do not and cannot feed, and their value is only that of a device for keeping the race established. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
North American silkworm, producing a closed cocoon, somewhat smaller than that of Pernyi, but the silk seems as good as that of Pernyi. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
Ireland, like those of the silkworm, were of little moment to herself, but served only to give luxury to those who neither toil nor spin. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Chinese oak silkworm; the Roylei moths are of a lighter color, but the larvæ of both species can hardly be distinguished from one another. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
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