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silkmoth

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
silk-moth
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any moth whose caterpillar stage is a silkworm, especially Bombyx mori, the domestic silkmoth, but also others in the families Bombycidae and Saturniidae (as well as the Siberian silkmoth in the family Lasiocampidae).

Etymology

From silk + moth.

Inflected Forms

silkmoths (plural)

Phrases

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Questions

What does silkmoth mean?
Any moth whose caterpillar stage is a silkworm, especially Bombyx mori, the domestic silkmoth, but also others in the families Bombycidae and Saturniidae (as well as the Siberian silkmoth in the family Lasiocampidae).
Where does silkmoth come from?
From silk + moth.

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