vegetable silk

1. The two men who conducted the attack were identified as a 33-year-old vegetable peddler and a 28-year-old taxi driver, both Muslim Uighurs from Kashgar, the former Silk Road city which is known in Chinese as Kashi.
   经调查确认，两名发动袭击的男子分别是一名33岁的菜贩和一名28岁的出租车司机，两人都是喀什的穆斯林维吾尔族人。喀什曾是丝绸之路上的一座城市。

noun

1. a plant fiber from the kapok tree

   Synonym:    kapoksilk cotton