silkworm

IPA/ˈsɪlkwɜːm/
KK[sˈɪlkwɚm]IPA/ˈsɪlkwɜːrm/

silkworm — noun

  • silkwormsingular
  • silkwormsplural

1. A small, pale caterpillar that people raise on farms. It spins a protective coco

1.名詞B1
釋義

A small, pale caterpillar that people raise on farms. It spins a protective cocoon from fine silk threads, which are later unwound and woven into cloth.

例句

Theo watched the silkworms eating mulberry leaves every day before school.

silkworms + eat + mulberry leaves as food source

Grandma Chen showed the children how to hold a silkworm gently in her palm.

同義詞
  • caterpillar

    broader category — any insect larva with many legs, not just the silk-producing kind

  • larva

    biological term for the immature stage of an insect; more technical than silkworm

文法句型

silkworm + verb (raises, spins, produces)

用法筆記

Silkworm refers specifically to the caterpillar of the Bombyx mori moth, which is raised commercially. It is not used for wild caterpillars that also produce silk threads.

常見錯誤

❌I saw a silkworm in my garden eating a rose leaf.
✅I saw a caterpillar in my garden eating a rose leaf.
💡Most caterpillars in gardens are not silkworms; silkworms are domesticated and fed mulberry leaves.