The silkworm is spinning a thread.
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Silkworm
Synonyms for "silkworm" (10 found)
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5 entriesBombyx morisericulture industrysilkworm cocoonsilkworm farmingsilkworm larvae
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What the silkworm won't eat, the bug will.
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This situation altered in the fifth century A.D., when a Chinese princess married the king of Khotan, an oasis north of the Plain of Tibet. When the princess left her native land and traveled west to her bridegroom, she carried, smuggled in her headdress, silkworm cocoons and the seeds of the mulberry tree on which they feed.
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