ceiba pentandra

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ceiba pentandra - 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.]

ceiba pentandra - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]