silk-cotton tree

English

Alternative forms

• silk cotton tree

Noun

silk-cotton tree (plural silk-cotton trees)

1. (botany) Any of several large tropical trees:
   1. Bombax ceiba, native to much of tropical and temperate Asia and Australasia.

      Synonyms: ceiba, kapok tree, mumian, red cotton tree

   2. Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa.
   3. Cochlospermum religiosum, native to the Asian tropics.

Hypernyms

• tree

Translations

kapok tree — see kapok tree

See also

• kapok

References

• silk-cotton tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia