kapok tree

English

Etymology

The kapok tree (Bombax ceiba; sense 2).

From kapok + tree.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪpɒk tɹiː/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪˌpɑk tɹi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːpəʊk tɹiː/, [ˈkɑːpəʊʔ-]
• Hyphenation: ka‧pok tree

Noun

kapok tree (plural kapok trees)

1. Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas and west-central Africa, with white flowers, cultivated in south-east Asia for its seed fibre.

   Synonym: kapok

   • 1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, Faber and Faber 2013, p. 123:

     Right smack in the middle of the village is a huge kapok tree, which is where they get together and have their market every fifth day.

2. The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), an Asian tree with red flowers.

   Synonym: kapok

   • 2015, Labodalih Sembiring, translating Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger, Verso 2015, p. 111:

     The coastal morning glory was left to creep up a bamboo pole that leaned against the kapok tree.

3. Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Translations

Ceiba pentandra

• Catalan: capoquer
• Edo: ọkha
• Ewe: ʋuti, wudese
• Finnish: amazoninkapokkipuu
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• French: fromager (fr) m
• German: Kapokbaum m
• Japanese: パンヤノキ (pan'ya-no-ki), カポック (kapokku), インドキワタ (indo-kiwata)
• Malayalam: പഞ്ഞിമരം (ml) (paññimaraṁ), ഇലവ് (ml) (ilavŭ)
• Swedish: kapok (sv) c

Bombax ceiba

• Finnish: valkokapokkio
• German: asiatischer Kapokbaum m, indischer Kapokbaum m, roter Seidenwollbaum m
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• Japanese: インドワタノキ (indo-wata-no-ki), キワタ (kiwata), キワタノキ (kiwata-no-ki)
• Swedish: indiskt dunträd (sv) n

Cochlospermum gillivraei

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Cochlospermum fraseri

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The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked‌: "'tropical tree' from the article 'silk-cotton tree'"

• Assamese: শিমলু (ximolu)
• Bengali: শিমুল (śimul), লাল শিমুল (lal śimul)
• Bikol Central: kayo (bcl)
• Braj: सेमर (semar)
• Burmese: လက်ပံ (my) (lakpam)
• Catalan: arbre del cotó
• Cebuano: taglinaw, duldol, durol, kapok (rare)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 木棉 (zh) (mùmián)

• Classical Nahuatl: pōchōtl
• Finnish: kapokkio (fi), kapokkipuu (fi)
• French: fromager (fr) m, kapokier (fr) m
• Hindi: सेमल (hi) (semal)
• Kannada: ಬೂರಗ (kn) (būraga)
• Malayalam: ഇലവ് (ml) (ilavŭ), പൂള (ml) (pūḷa), മുള്ളിലവ് (ml) (muḷḷilavŭ)
• Manipuri: ꯇꯦꯔꯥ (terā)
• Marathi: सांवर (sāuvar), काटेसांवर (kāṭesāuvar)
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• Nepali: सिमल (simal)
• Oriya: ଶିମୁଳି (or) (śimuḷi)
• Portuguese: paineira f
• Punjabi: ਸਿੰਬਲ (pa) (simbal)
• Sanskrit: शल्मलि (sa) (śalmali), शिम्बल (sa) (śimbala)
• Santali: ᱥᱤᱢᱲᱤ (simṛi)
• Sinhalese: ඉඹුල් (iᵐbul)
• Spanish: ceiba (es) f, kapok m, capoc m, pochote m (Mexico), bonga f (Colombia), lupuna f (Peruvian Amazon)
• Sylheti: ꠢꠤꠝꠟ (himol)
• Tagalog: buboy
• Tamil: கோங்கு (ta) (kōṅku), முள்ளிலவு (ta) (muḷḷilavu), இலவு (ta) (ilavu)
• Telugu: బూరుగ (te) (būruga)
• Thai: งิ้ว (th) (ngíu)
• Vietnamese: gạo (vi)

Further reading

• kapok tree (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia