giant silkworm

English Thesaurus

1. larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	caterpillar,
definition	:	a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	ailanthus silkworm, samia cynthia,
definition	:	large green silkworm of the cynthia moth (noun.animal)

part holonym	:	sericterium, serictery, silk gland,
definition	:	silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family saturniidae, saturniidae,
definition	:	important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known (noun.animal)