wild wilkworm

Questions about wild wilkworm

What does wild wilkworm mean?

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

What is another word for wild wilkworm?

Close synonyms include silkworm, giant silkworm. 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 wild wilkworm a common word?

wild wilkworm 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.