Hyphenation of silkworms

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word silkworms? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

silk-worms

Definitions of silkworms:

1.	The commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber The principal source of commercial silk
2.	Larva of a saturniid moth Spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.