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RED SILK COTTON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does red silk cotton mean?
• RED SILK COTTON (noun)
The noun RED SILK COTTON has 1 sense:
1. a plant fiber from the red silk-cotton tree of eastern India; inferior to kapok
Familiarity information: RED SILK COTTON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant fiber from the red silk-cotton tree of eastern India; inferior to kapok
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("red silk cotton" is a kind of...):
plant fiber; plant fibre (fiber derived from plants)
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