giant silkworm

Questions about giant silkworm

What does giant silkworm mean?

giant silkworm means "larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon".

What is another word for giant silkworm?

Close synonyms include silkworm, wild wilkworm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is giant silkworm a common word?

giant silkworm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.