silkworm   (TTS Sound)

The noun silkworm has 2 senses

• silkworm -- (the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk)


• silkworm, giant silkworm, wild wilkworm -- (larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon)