silkweed
[ silk-weed ]
noun
any milkweed, the pods of which contain a silky down.
Origin of silkweed
1Words Nearby silkweed
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How to use silkweed in a sentence
Their lines were made of the tough, fibrous, silken bark of the variety of milkweed or silkweed, already mentioned.
Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity | Galen Clark
British Dictionary definitions for silkweed
silkweed
/ (ˈsɪlkˌwiːd) /
noun
another name for milkweed (def. 1)
Origin of silkweed
1C19: so called because the pods contain a silklike down
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