Meanings
plural silk-cotton trees
- Any of several large tropical trees:
- Bombax ceiba, native to much of tropical and temperate Asia and Australasia.
Synonyms: kapok, ceiba, kapok tree, mumian, red cotton tree
- Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa.
Synonyms: kapok, kapok tree, mapou, mumian
- Cochlospermum religiosum, native to the Asian tropics.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounBombax ceiba, native to much of tropical and temperate Asia and Australasia.
nounCeiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa.
More synonyms by meaning
nounmassive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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