to raise silkworms

plump lower eyelids (considered to be an attractive feature)

the common silkworm (Bombyx mori)

Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾[Mao2 Dun4]

silkworms fed on the leaves of the 柘[zhe4] tree

silkworm

genus Nereis, with species including the sandworm and the clam worm

Can Cong, legendary creator of silk and sericulture

natural silk (secreted by silkworm)

sericulturist

silkworm eggs

see 蠶蔟|蚕蔟[can2 cu4]

silkworm guano (excrement)

a silkworm's period of inactivity prior to molting

silkworm eggs

bamboo tray for raising silkworms

paper on which silkworm lays its eggs

silkworm cocoon

Malabar spinach (Basella alba)

small bundle of straw etc provided for silkworms to spin cocoons on

variant of 蠶箔|蚕箔[can2 bo2]

newly hatched silkworm

silkworm chrysalis; silkworm pupa

Chinese silkworm moth (Bombyx mori)

broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean

(lit. and fig.) to nibble away at

silk industry

tussah silk

silk (specifically, mulberry silk)

the larva of silkworm with batrytis

Chinese artichoke; Stachys sieboldii

silkworm

paper made from silkworm cocoons

G6PD deficiency (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency)

(lit.) to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom); (fig.) to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale