vegetable silk

Questions about vegetable silk

What is another word for vegetable silk?

It depends which vegetable silk you mean. In the sense “a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation”, the synonyms are kapok, silk cotton. 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 vegetable silk?

WordNet records no antonym for vegetable silk. 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 vegetable silk 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 vegetable silk

• Full entry for vegetable silkAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for vegetable silkWhether 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.