Term: 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
Candidate hypernym: caterpillar: a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth → 1
Candidate hypernym: jim crow: a crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails → 0
Candidate hypernym: mericarp: a carpel with one seed; one of a pair split apart at maturity → 0
Candidate hypernym: trumpetfish: tropical Atlantic fish with a long snout; swims snout down → 0
Candidate hypernym: butcher shop: a shop in which meat and poultry (and sometimes fish) are sold → 0
Candidate hypernym: rachis: axis of a compound leaf or compound inflorescence → 0
Candidate hypernym: projective geometry: the geometry of properties that remain invariant under projection → 0
Candidate hypernym: railroad flat: an apartment whose rooms are all in a line with doors between them → 0
Candidate hypernym: measuring worm: small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae → 0
Candidate hypernym: shirring: baking shelled eggs → 0
Candidate hypernym: tartan: a cloth having a crisscross design → 0