Vegetable silk Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

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Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913