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HSK
natural silk (secreted by silkworm)
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  *蠶* | 蠶* | *蠶
silkworm
silkworm
G6PD deficiency (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency)
(lit. and fig.) to nibble away at
broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean
silkworm chrysalis; silkworm pupa
silkworm cocoon
lit. to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom) / fig. to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale
Chinese silkworm moth (Bombyx mori)
silkworm eggs
Can Cong, legendary creator of silk and sericulture
silkworm guano (excrement)
sericulturist
silkworm eggs
a silkworm's period of inactivity prior to molting
newly hatched silkworm
bamboo tray for raising silkworms
paper on which silkworm lays its eggs
small bundle of straw etc provided for silkworms to spin cocoons on
paper made from silkworm cocoons
Malabar spinach (Basella alba)
variant of 蠶箔|蚕箔


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