silkworm
silkworm — 名詞
- silkwormsingular
- silkwormsplural
1. A small, pale caterpillar that people raise on farms. It spins a protective coco
蠶
能吐絲結繭的幼蟲
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.
Theo watched the silkworms eating mulberry leaves every day before school.
Theo 每天上學前都會觀察蠶寶寶吃桑葉的模樣。
silkworms + eat + mulberry leaves as food source
Grandma Chen showed the children how to hold a silkworm gently in her palm.
Grandma Chen 輕輕把蠶放在掌心上，讓孩子們近距離觀看。
The farmer sold baskets of silkworm cocoons to the silk factory in town.
農夫把一籃籃的蠶繭賣給鎮上的絲綢工廠。
A sickness can kill all the silkworms on a farm in just a few days.
一場病害就能在幾天之內毀掉整個養蠶場。
In the workshop the weaver sorted silkworm cocoons by size before boiling them.
在作坊裡，織工先把蠶繭按大小分類，再拿去煮沸。
- 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.