different between bombyx vs bombylious

English

Etymology

From Latin bombyx, from Ancient Greek ?????? (bómbux). Compare bombast.

Noun

bombyx (plural bombyxes)

1. Any member of the genus Bombyx of true silkmoths, whose caterpillars often feed on mulberries.

References

• Bombyx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bombyx on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (bómbux); see Middle Persian pmbk' for more.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bom.byks/, [?b?mb?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bom.biks/, [?b?mbiks]

Noun

bombyx f (genitive bombycis); third declension

1. silkworm

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• bombyc?nus

Descendants

• English: bombyx
• Spanish: bómbice
• Translingual: Bombyx

References

• bombyx in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bombyx in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bombyx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• bombyx in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Etymology

Latin bombyx a bumblebee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?m?b?li?s/

Adjective

bombylious (comparative more bombylious, superlative most bombylious)

1. (obsolete) Buzzing, like a bumblebee.
   • 1713, William Derham, Physico-Theology

     the whame or burrel-fly , which is vexatious to hor?es in summer, not by ?tinging them, but only by their bombylious noise, or tickling them , in ?ticking their nits, or eggs on the hair; which they do in a very dexterous manner

Related terms

• bombyx