silk gland serictery sericterium | silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders |
dental floss floss | a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth |
dress hat high hat opera hat silk hat stovepipe top hat topper beaver | a man's hat with a tall crown, usually covered with silk or with beaver fur |
floss | a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery |
moire watered-silk | silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern |
nylons nylon stocking rayons rayon stocking silk stocking | women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk) |
silk | a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae |
silkscreen silk screen print serigraph | a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil |
Silk Road | an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (, miles), followed by Marco Polo in the th century to reach Cathay |
silk tree Albizia julibrissin Albizzia julibrissin | attractive domed or flat-topped Asiatic tree having bipinnate leaves and flowers with long silky stamens |
mountain rice silkgrass silk grass Indian millet Oryzopsis hymenoides | valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico |
cornsilk corn silk | each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn |
Jamaican cherry calabur tree calabura silk wood silkwood Muntingia calabura | a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit, bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves |
silk oak | any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering |
ramie ramee Chinese silk plant China grass Boehmeria nivea | tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves, cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax |
silk vine Periploca graeca | deciduous climber for arches and fences having ill-scented but interesting flowers and poisonous yellow fruits, cultivated for its dark shining foliage, southeastern Europe to Asia Minor |
kapok silk cotton vegetable silk | a plant fiber from the kapok tree, used for stuffing and insulation |
red silk cotton | a plant fiber from the red silkotton tree of eastern India, inferior to kapok |
silk | animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders |
floss | use dental floss to clean, floss your teeth after every meal |
silk-lined | having a silk lining |