kapok tree (English, noun)
expansion: kapok tree (plural kapok trees)
Senses:
glosses: Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas and west-central Africa, with white flowers, cultivated in south-east Asia for its seed fibre.
glosses: The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), an Asian tree with red flowers.
glosses: Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Cochlospermum gillivraei
glosses: Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Cochlospermum fraseri
Forms:
form: kapok trees
tags: plural