RAYON

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A synthetic silklike fabric

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("rayon" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rayon"):

acetate; acetate rayon (a fabric made from fibers of cellulose acetate)

viscose; viscose rayon (a rayon fabric made from viscose (cellulose xanthate) fibers)

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