red silk cotton

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   a plant fiber from the red silk-cotton tree of eastern India; inferior to kapok

   Broaderplant fiber

Questions about red silk cotton

What does red silk cotton mean?

red silk cotton means "a plant fiber from the red silk-cotton tree of eastern India; inferior to kapok".

Is red silk cotton a common word?

red silk cotton is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.