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silk-cotton tree

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several trees having seeds surrounded by silky hairs, especially Bombax ceiba of tropical Asia.

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  • noun A large tropical tree of the genus Bombax.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun 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

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