silk | (noun) a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae | - |
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(noun) animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders | - |
silken | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silklike, silky, sleek, slick |
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silkgrass | (noun) valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico | Synonyms: Indian millet, mountain rice, Oryzopsis hymenoides, silk grass |
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silkily | (adverb) in a silky manner | - |
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silkiness | (noun) the smooth feel of silk fabric | Synonyms: sleekness |
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silklike | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silky, sleek, slick |
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silks | (noun) the brightly colored garments of a jockey; emblematic of the stable | - |
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silkscreen | (noun) a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil | Synonyms: serigraph, silk screen print |
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(verb) print by silkscreen | - |
silkweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts | Synonyms: milkweed |
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silkwood | (noun) a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and fleshy edible fruit; a bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves | Synonyms: calabur tree, calabura, Jamaican cherry, Muntingia calabura, silk wood |
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silkworm | (noun) the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk | - |
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(noun) larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon | Synonyms: giant silkworm, wild wilkworm |
silky | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, sleek, slick |
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