Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The moss Polytrichum commune.
- noun A shrub, Muntingia Calabura. See
calabur-tree .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves
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Examples
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So one thin silkwood, 1 coned moss greenbut light mossmohair unknown name and 1 argyll Rossini greens/golds mohairs I've started again.
Archive 2006-11-01 ambermoggie 2006
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Using 8mm needles and garter stitch, Couldn't see the silkwood so after 5 rows snipped that without, and this is the important thing, frogging.
knit one frog one ambermoggie 2006
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Using 8mm needles and garter stitch, Couldn't see the silkwood so after 5 rows snipped that without, and this is the important thing, frogging.
Archive 2006-11-01 ambermoggie 2006
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So one thin silkwood, 1 coned moss greenbut light mossmohair unknown name and 1 argyll Rossini greens/golds mohairs I've started again.
knit one frog one ambermoggie 2006
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A huge black beacon waddled along, dragging a reluctant mass of iron at the end of its chain cable, followed by a roughly-built "flatty" and a huge log of silkwood.
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The new occident cakchiquel evasion silkwood of lockage, ledgeman from notepad tegucigalpa, warning hewer ithaca and web diplegia for micropyle.
Rational Review 2009
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Fun fact, she peed all over me, I had to take a silkwood shower in the middle of shooting. "
Jezebel 2009
bilby commented on the word silkwood
Jus' thinkin' along the lines of the 'Fish that end in -fish' list, how about a list of trees that end in -wood?
September 13, 2008