silkgown

See silk gown, under silk, a. silk-gra (silk'grås), n. 1. The Adam's-needle or bear-gra , Yucca fila mentos a: in allusion to its fiber, which has been the subject of some experiment, but has not been brought into use. - 2. A name given to the istle, karat as, ramie (see these names), and some other fibers, also more or le to the plants producing them, though they are little gra -like.-3. A gra , Oryzopsis cuspid at a, of the western United States, whose flowering glumes are densely covered with long silky hairs; also, the similar Stipa comata of the same region. silk-grower (silk'gro"ėr), n. duces silk-cocoons by raising silkworms and the mulberries or other plants on which they feed. One who pro