SILK COTTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silk cotton mean? 

• SILK COTTON (noun)
  The noun SILK COTTON has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SILK COTTON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILK COTTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

kapok; silk cotton; vegetable silk

Hypernyms ("silk cotton" is a kind of...):

plant fiber; plant fibre (fiber derived from plants)

Holonyms ("silk cotton" is a substance of...):

cushioning; padding (artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort)

 Context examples 

Alone, I should have been ignorant of the names of these giant growths, but our men of science pointed out the cedars, the great silk cotton trees, and the redwood trees, with all that profusion of various plants which has made this continent the chief supplier to the human race of those gifts of Nature which depend upon the vegetable world, while it is the most backward in those products which come from animal life.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)