silk cotton

Questions about silk cotton

What is another word for silk cotton?

It depends which silk cotton you mean. In the sense “a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation”, the synonyms are kapok, vegetable silk. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of silk cotton?

WordNet records no antonym for silk cotton. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for silk cotton come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of silk cotton

• Full entry for silk cottonAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for silk cottonWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.