bombyx

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any member of the genus Bombyx of true silkmoths, whose caterpillars often feed on mulberries.
    — Most mammifera exhale, in the rutting season, peculiar emanations serving to annouce to the male the presence of the female, and excite in him the sexual desire. This situation is true also in the case of insects, for example, in the female of the bombyx butterfly[.]

词形变化

bombyxes plural

词源

From translingual Bombyx, from Latin bombyx, from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux). Compare bombast.
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