domestic silkworm moth

Questions about domestic silkworm moth

What is another word for domestic silkworm moth?

It depends which domestic silkworm moth you mean. In the sense “stocky creamy-white Asiatic moth found almost entirely under human care; the source of most of the silk commerce”, the synonyms are domesticated silkworm moth, Bombyx mori. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of domestic silkworm moth?

WordNet records no antonym for domestic silkworm moth. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for domestic silkworm moth come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of domestic silkworm moth

• Full entry for domestic silkworm mothAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for domestic silkworm mothWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.