vegetable silk

1. 1.

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

   Synonymskapoksilk cotton

   Broaderplant fiber

Questions about vegetable silk

What does vegetable silk mean?

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

What is another word for vegetable silk?

Close synonyms include kapok, silk cotton. 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 vegetable silk a common word?

vegetable silk 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.