蚕

cán

Definitions

1. silkworm

Words Containing 蚕

• 家蚕 jiā cán: the common silkworm (Bombyx mori)
• 春蚕 chūn cán: Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾[máo dùn]
• 柘蚕 zhè cán: silkworms fed on the leaves of the 柘[zhè] tree
• 桑蚕 sāng cán: silkworm
• 沙蚕 shā cán: genus Nereis, with species including the sandworm and the clam worm
• 白僵蚕 bái jiāng cán: the larva of silkworm with batrytis
• 卧蚕 wò cán: plump lower eyelids (considered to be an attractive feature)
• 草石蚕 cǎo shí cán: Chinese artichoke
• 蚕丛 cán cóng: Can Cong, legendary creator of silk and sericulture
• 蚕子 cán zǐ: silkworm eggs
• 蚕宝宝 cán bǎo bǎo: silkworm
• 蚕山 cán shān: see 蠶蔟|蚕蔟[cán cù]
• 蚕沙 cán shā: silkworm guano (excrement)
• 蚕眠 cán mián: a silkworm's period of inactivity prior to molting
• 蚕种 cán zhǒng: silkworm eggs
• 蚕箔 cán bó: bamboo tray for raising silkworms
• 蚕纸 cán zhǐ: paper on which silkworm lays its eggs
• 蚕丝 cán sī: natural silk (secreted by silkworm)
• 蚕茧 cán jiǎn: silkworm cocoon
• 蚕茧纸 cán jiǎn zhǐ: paper made from silkworm cocoons
• 蚕菜 cán cài: Malabar spinach (Basella alba)
• 蚕蔟 cán cù: small bundle of straw etc provided for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 蚕蛹 cán yǒng: silkworm chrysalis; silkworm pupa
• 蚕蛾 cán é: Chinese silkworm moth (Bombyx mori)
• 蚕蚁 cán yǐ: newly hatched silkworm
• 蚕豆 cán dòu: broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean
• 蚕豆症 cán dòu zhèng: G6PD deficiency (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency)
• 蚕农 cán nóng: sericulturist
• 蚕食 cán shí: (lit. and fig.) to nibble away at
• 蚕食鲸吞 cán shí jīng tūn: lit. to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom)
• 养蚕 yǎng cán: to raise silkworms
• 养蚕业 yǎng cán yè: silk industry