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1. (n.) silk
the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm.
2. silk
thread made from this fiber.
3. silk
cloth made from this fiber.
4. silk
a garment of this cloth.
5. silk
a gown of such material worn by a King's or Queen's Counsel at the English bar.
6. silk
Brit. Informal.
7. silk
a King's or Queen's Counsel.
8. silk
silks, the blouse and peaked cap, considered together, worn by a jockey or sulky driver.
9. silk
any fiber or filamentous matter resembling silk, as a filament produced by certain spiders or the thread of a mollusk.
10. silk
the hairlike styles on an ear of corn.
11. (adj.) silk
made of silk.
12. silk
of, pertaining to, or resembling silk.
13. (v.i.) silk
(of corn) to be in the course of developing silk.
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| Definition of 'silk' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) silk
a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae
2. (noun) silk
animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders
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1. (noun) silk
fine, expensive cloth
a silk scarf
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| Definition of 'silk' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) silk
the fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori
2. (noun) silk
hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material
3. (noun) silk
that which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize
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| Definition of 'silk' |
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. silk
A continuous protein fiber consisting primarily of FIBROINS. It is synthesized by a variety of INSECTS and ARACHNIDS.
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Sense: very fine, soft threads made by silkworms.
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 Afrikaans: sy |
 Arabic: حَرير |
 Bulgarian: коприна |
 Brazilian: seda |
 Czech: hedvábí |
 German: die Seide |
 Danish: silke |
 Greek: μετάξι |
 Spanish: seda |
 Estonian: siidniit |
 Farsi: ابريشم |
 Finnish: silkki |
 French: soie |
 Hebrew: מֶשִי |
 Hindi: रेशम |
 Croatian: svila, svilena nit |
 Hungarian: selyem |
 Indonesian: benang sutera |
 Icelandic: silki(þráður) |
 Italian: seta |
 Japanese: 絹 |
 Korean: 명주실 |
 Lithuanian: šilkas |
 Latvian: zīds |
 Malay: sutera |
 Dutch: zijde |
 Norwegian: silke |
 Polish: jedwab |
 Persian: ابريشم |
 Pashto: دريښم، وريښمين ټوكر يا تا |
 Portuguese: seda |
 Romanian: mătase |
 Russian: шёлк |
 Slovak: hodváb |
 Slovenian: svila |
 Serbian: svila |
 Swedish: silke |
 Thai: เส้นไหม |
 Turkish: ipek |
 Taiwanese: 絲，綢 |
 Ukrainian: шовк, шовкові нитки |
 Urdu: ریشم کا دھاگا |
 Vietnamese: tơ |
 Chinese: 丝，绸 |
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