(idiomatic) Golden handcuffs: any arrangement designed to provide favorable benefits or pay so as to discourage a participant from wanting to leave it.

A worm of the phylum Onychophora: an ecdysozoan organism with tiny eyes, antennae, multiple pairs of legs, and slime glands.

plural of velvet worm

An imitation velvet, made of cotton. / Velvet in which the warp and woof are both of cotton, and the pile is of silk.

velvet scoter

Necora puber, the largest swimming crab found in British coastal waters.

The best kind of cork bark, supple, elastic, and not woody or porous.

Amaranthus caudatus, an annual flowering plant, the love-lies-bleeding.

plural of Velvet Revolution

Mucuna pruriens. / Mucuna pruriens subsp. deeringiana. / Pseudarthria hookeri.