silk-cotton tree

English

Alternative forms

• silk cotton tree

Noun

silk-cotton tree (plural silk-cotton trees)

1. (botany) Any of several large tropical trees:
   1. Bombax ceiba, native to much of tropical and temperate Asia and Australasia.
   2. Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa.
   3. Cochlospermum religiosum, native to the Asian tropics.

Synonyms

• (Bombax ceiba): ceiba, kapok tree, mumian, red cotton tree

Hypernyms

• tree

Translations

tropical tree

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 木棉 (zh) (mùmián)

• Classical Nahuatl: pōchōtl
• Finnish: kapokkio (fi)
• French: fromager (fr) m
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• Santali: ᱥᱤᱢᱲᱤ (simṛi)
• Spanish: ceiba f, kapok m, capoc m, pochote m (Mexico), bonga f (Colombia), lupuna f (Peruvian Amazon)
• Tagalog: buboy
• Thai: สกุลงิ้ว (sàgun ngíw)
• Vietnamese: gạo (vi)

See also

• kapok

References

• silk-cotton tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia