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sea silk

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English

Syllables
sea silk
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

sea silks (plural)

Questions

What does sea silk mean?
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.

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