Vegetable silk Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation
silk cotton; kapok.
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- a cottonlike, fibrous material obtained from the coating of the seeds of a Brazilian tree (
Chorisia speciosa ). It us used for various purposes, as for stuffing, and the like, but is incapable of being spun on account of a want of cohesion among the fibers.