kapok

3 definitions found

kapok - 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.]

kapok - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  kapok
      n 1: a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and
           insulation [syn: kapok, silk cotton, vegetable silk]
      2: 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]

kapok - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "kapok":
     blubber, breeze, butter, clay, cushion, dough, down, eiderdown,
     feather bed, feathers, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, foam, pillow,
     plush, pudding, puff, putty, rubber, satin, silk, swansdown,
     thistledown, velvet, wax, wool, zephyr