silk gland serictery sericterium | silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders |
custom-made custom-built | an item made to the customer's specifications |
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 |
filament | a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current |
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) |
ready-made | a manufactured artifact (as a garment or piece of furniture) that is made in advance and available for purchase, their apartment was furnished with ready-mades |
reservoir artificial lake man-made lake | lake used to store water for community use |
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 |
tailor-made | custom-made clothing |
filament filum | a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) |
Silk Road | an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (, miles), followed by Marco Polo in the th century to reach Cathay |
filament | the stalk of a stamen |
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 |
fibril filament strand | a very slender natural or synthetic fiber |
algin alginic acid | a gum used especially as a thickener or emulsifier |
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 |
man-made fiber synthetic fiber | fiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes |
silk | animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders |
custom-made custom | made according to the specifications of an individual |
bespoke bespoken made-to-order tailored tailor-made | (of clothing) custom-made |
custom-built made-to-order | built for a particular individual |
ready-made | made for purchase and immediate use |
made | produced by a manufacturing process, bought some made goods at the local store, rope and nails |
camp-made | made as part of the arts-and-crafts program at summer camp, my camp-made leather wallet |
machine-made | made by machine |
factory-made | produced in quantity at a factory |
ready-made | commercially produced, not homemade, ready-made clothes |
new-made | newly made, the aroma of new-made bread |
silk-lined | having a silk lining |
made | (of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order, a neatly made bed |
man-made semisynthetic synthetic | not of natural origin, prepared or made artificially, man-made fibers, synthetic leather |
cliched ready-made | repeated regularly without thought or originality, ready-made phrases |
made-up | having been paved |
purpose-built purpose-made | designed and constructed to serve a particular purpose |
made | successful or assured of success, now I am a made man forever- Christopher Marlowe |
self-made | having achieved success or recognition by your own efforts, a self-made millionaire |
well-made | skillfully constructed |