| Velvet (n.) A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back. |
| Velvet (n.) The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth. |
| Velvet (a.) Made of velvet |
| Velvet (v. i.) To pain velvet. |
| Velvet (v. t.) To make like, or cover with, velvet. |
| onychophoran / velvet worm / peripatus any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms |
| velvet ant a solitary wasp of the family Mutillidae, the body has a coat of brightly colored velvety hair and the females are wingless |
| velvet a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back |
| love-lies-bleeding / velvet flower / tassel flower Amaranthus caudatus young leaves widely used as leaf vegetables, seeds used as cereal |
| velvet plant purple velvet plant / royal velvet plant / Gynura aurantiaca Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs |
| velvet bent / velvet bent grass / brown bent / Rhode Island bent / dog bent / Agrostis canina common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves |
| velvet grass / Yorkshire fog / Holcus lanatus tall European perennial grass having a velvety stem, naturalized in United States and used for forage |
| mascarene grass / Korean velvet grass / Zoysia tenuifolia Asiatic creeping perennial grass, introduced in southern United States as a droughtesistant lawn grass |
| velvetleaf velvet-leaf velvetweed / Indian mallow butter-print / China jute / Abutilon theophrasti tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber, naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States |
| tree mallow / velvetleaf velvet-leaf Lavatera arborea arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers, southwestern United States |