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sea silk

sea silk noun: an extremely fine, rare and valuable fabric produced from the long silky filaments or byssus excreted by several molluscs (particularly Pinna nobilis, rough penshell) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed.

Noun

sea silk (countable and uncountable, plural sea silks)

  1. An extremely fine, rare and valuable fabric produced from the long silky filaments or byssus excreted by several molluscs (particularly Pinna nobilis, rough penshell) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed.

Forms of sea silk

pluralsea silks

Questions about sea silk

What does sea silk mean?
Sea silk means an extremely fine, rare and valuable fabric produced from the long silky filaments or byssus excreted by several molluscs (particularly Pinna nobilis, rough penshell) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed.
What part of speech is sea silk?
Sea silk is a noun.
What is the plural of sea silk?
The plural of sea silk is sea silks.

Words near sea silk in the dictionary

  1. sea shilling
  2. sea shillings
  3. sea shrub
  4. sea shrubs
  5. sea sickness
  6. sea silk
  7. sea silks
  8. sea skater
  9. sea skaters
  10. sea skimmer
  11. sea skimmers

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