Silkworm Definition

Silkworm Sentence Examples

• Among the insects the bee and the silkworm are the most useful.

• The common silkworm produces as a rule only one generation during the year; but there are races in cultivation which are bivoltine, or twogenerationed, and some are multivoltine.

• Pasteur prosecuted his investigations into the silkworm disease at Alais, and the town has dedicated a bust to his memory.

• But the first notice of the silkworm in Western literature occurs in Aristotle, Hist.

• Thus he came to the conclusion that the malady had been inherent in many successive generations of the silkworm, and that the epidemic condition was only an exaggeration of a normal state brought about by the method of cultivation and production of graine pursued.