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[syn: kapok, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree, Bombay ceiba, God tree, Ceiba pentandra]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Kapok \Ka*pok"\, n. [Prob. fr. the native name.] (Bot.)
A silky wool derived from the seeds of Ceiba pentandra
(syn. Eriodendron anfractuosum), a bombaceous tree of the
East and West Indies.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Ceiba pentandra
n 1: massive 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 [syn: kapok, ceiba
tree, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree,
Bombay ceiba, God tree, Ceiba pentandra]