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Bombycidae

noun

Chinese silkworm moth

• Syn: ↑family Bombycidae

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Lepidoptera, ↑order Lepidoptera

• Member Meronyms: ↑bombycid, ↑bombycid moth, ↑silkworm moth, ↑Bombyx, ↑genus Bombyx

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\\bämˈbisəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Bombyc-, Bombyx, type genus + -idae

: a family of chiefly Asiatic moderate-sized moths having larvae that feed on leaves and spin cocoons of commercially usable silk and including the domesticated silkworms (genus Bombyx) and a few related forms but formerly including many other moths

Useful english dictionary. 2012.