silkworm

She had a face like a silkworm, and the dining-room reeks of orris-root.

Up Broadway he turned, and halted at a glittering cafe, where are gathered together nightly the choicest products of the grape, the silkworm and the protoplasm.

Each body of Japanese troops moved forward like a silkworm, leaving behind it a glistening strand of red copper wire.

"Harebell, if a silkworm spin one yard of Fairy cloth in an hour, how many will it spin in a day?"

In many cases this could not be otherwise: thus the inherited peculiarities in the horns of cattle could appear only in the offspring when nearly mature; peculiarities in the silkworm are known to appear at the corresponding caterpillar or cocoon stage.

When any large insect, as a grasshopper or wasp, is caught, the spider, by a dexterous movement, makes it revolve very rapidly, and at the same time emitting a band of threads from its spinners, soon envelops its prey in a case like the cocoon of a silkworm. The spider now examines the powerless victim, and gives the fatal bite on the hinder part of its thorax; then retreating, patiently waits till the poison has taken effect.

Some silkworms' houses, made of the same materials, are scattered over the desks.

Thus he could converse with the Minister for War about silkworms, with the Minister of Education about detective stories, with the Minister of Labor about Limoges enamel, and with the Minister of Missions and Moral Progress (if that be his correct title) about the pantomime boys of the last four decades.

The harvesting of silkworm cocoons is underway in the country, Agriculture Ministry has said in a message.

'The production of domestic silk in the present day is facing many problems, such as a shortage of good silkworm species, lack of knowledge on weaving techniques and lack of research,' Chansophea said.