Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hit the silk

Alternative form of floss silk.

plural of silk tree

A method of reproducing coloured artwork using a cut stencil attached to a stretched, fine-meshed silk screen

plural of silk-cotton tree

Bombax ceiba, native to much of tropical and temperate Asia and Australasia. / Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa. / Cochlospermum religiosum, native to the Asian tropics.

Synonym of Behçet's disease

A spider, Nephila

(idiomatic) To produce something refined, admirable, or valuable from something which is unrefined, unpleasant, or of little or no value.

Antheraea cingalesa, a species of moth endemic to Sri Lanka.