silk-cotton tree
Noun
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Noun
silk-cotton tree
- (botany) Any of several large tropical trees:
- Bombax ceiba, native to much of tropical and temperate Asia and Australasia.
- Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa.
- Cochlospermum religiosum, native to the Asian tropics.
- (Bombax ceiba) ceiba, kapok tree, mumian, red cotton tree
- French: fromager
- Spanish: ceiba, kapok, capoc, pochote (Mexico), bonga (Colombia), lupuna (Peruvian Amazon)
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