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RAYON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rayon mean?
• RAYON (noun)
The noun RAYON has 1 sense:
1. a synthetic silklike fabric
Familiarity information: RAYON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A synthetic silklike fabric
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("rayon" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rayon"):
acetate; acetate rayon (a fabric made from fibers of cellulose acetate)
viscose; viscose rayon (a rayon fabric made from viscose (cellulose xanthate) fibers)
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