nylon

English Thesaurus

1. a synthetic fabric (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	cloth, fabric, material, textile,
definition	:	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers (noun.artifact)

2. a thermoplastic polyamide; a family of strong resilient synthetic fibers (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	man-made fiber, synthetic fiber,
definition	:	fiber created from natural materials or by chemical processes (noun.substance)

hypernym	:	polyamide, polymeric amide,
definition	:	a polymer containing repeated amide groups (noun.substance)