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WILD WILKWORM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon

Synonyms:

giant silkworm; silkworm; wild wilkworm

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("wild wilkworm" is a kind of...):

caterpillar (a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth)

Meronyms (parts of "wild wilkworm"):

sericterium; serictery; silk gland (silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild wilkworm"):

ailanthus silkworm; Samia cynthia (large green silkworm of the cynthia moth)

Holonyms ("wild wilkworm" is a member of...):

family Saturniidae; Saturniidae (important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known)

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