silk cotton

1. 1.

   a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation

   Synonymskapokvegetable silk

   Broaderplant fiber

Questions about silk cotton

What does silk cotton mean?

silk cotton means "a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation".

What is another word for silk cotton?

Close synonyms include kapok, vegetable silk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is silk cotton a common word?

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.