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sea silks

sea silks is the plural of sea silk.

Meaning of sea silk

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.

Questions about sea silks

What is sea silks the plural of?
Sea silks is the plural of sea silk.

Words near sea silks in the dictionary

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

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