CORN SILK Synonyms

• adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end

• a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass

• a bunch of feathers or hair

• a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn

• coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis

• any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)

• the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions

• a leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth

• how something is done or how it happens

• a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period

• a particular kind (as to appearance)

• the popular taste at a given time

• (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma

• editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display

• distinctive and stylish elegance

• a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving

• a slender bristlelike or tubular process

• designate by an identifying term

• make consistent with a certain fashion or style

• make consistent with certain rules of style

• each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn