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Silk

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Noun

1. silk

a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae

2. silk

animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Silk

see synonyms of silk
noun
1. 
the very fine soft lustrous fibre produced by a silkworm to make its cocoon
2. 
a. 
thread or fabric made from this fibre
b. 
(as modifier)
a silk dress
3. 
a garment made of this
4. 
a very fine fibre produced by a spider to build its web, nest, or cocoon
5. 
the tuft of long fine styles on an ear of maize
6. British
a. 
the gown worn by a Queen's (or King's) Counsel
b. informal
a Queen's (or King's) Counsel
c.  take silk
verb
7. (intransitive) US and Canadian
(of maize) to develop long hairlike styles

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Silk

see synonyms of silk
noun
1. 
the fine, soft, shiny fiber produced by silkworms to form their cocoons
2. 
thread or fabric made from this fiber
3. 
a. 
a garment or other article made of this fabric
b.  [pl.]
a distinctive silk uniform, as of a jockey
c. 
the silk gown worn by a king's (or queen's) counsel in British law courts
4. 
any silklike filament or substance, as that produced by spiders, or that within a milkweed pod, on the end of an ear of corn, etc.
adjective
5. 
of or like silk; silken
verb intransitive US
6. 
to develop silk
said of Indian corn

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Silk

see synonyms of silk
n.
1.
a. A fine lustrous fiber composed mainly of fibroin and produced by certain insect larvae to form cocoons, especially the strong, elastic, fibrous secretion of silkworms used to make thread and fabric.
b. Thread or fabric made from this fiber.
c. A garment made from this fabric.
2.
a. A silky filamentous material spun by a spider or an insect such as a webspinner.
b. A silky filamentous material produced by a plant, such as the styles forming a tuft on an ear of corn.
3. silks The brightly colored identifying garments of a jockey or harness driver.
adj.
Composed of or similar to the fiber or the fabric silk.
intr.v. silked, silk·ing, silks
To develop silk. Used of corn.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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