silk-cotton tree
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]silk-cotton tree (plural silk-cotton trees)
- (botany) Any of several large tropical trees:
- Bombax ceiba, native to much of tropical and temperate Asia and Australasia.
- Synonyms: ceiba, kapok tree, mumian, red cotton tree
- Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa.
- Cochlospermum religiosum, native to the Asian tropics.
- Bombax ceiba, native to much of tropical and temperate Asia and Australasia.
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[edit]kapok tree — see kapok tree
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- silk-cotton tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia