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‖ simool
Also semal, semul.
[Bengālī, Hindī, etc. simul (also semul, sêmul, sêmal).]
The (red) silk-cotton tree of India (Bombax ceiba).
1835Penny Cycl. IV. 2/2 The Semul, or cotton-tree. 1855Royle Fibrous Plants India 265 A report from the Society of Arts on two pieces of cloth made from the Simool or Silk Cotton tree. 1866Treas. Bot. 1009/2 The silk-cotton of the Simool..is..not adapted for spinning. 1889Dict. Econ. Prod. India I. 489 The semul cotton supplied them was better known as kapok. 1902T. W. Webber Forests Upper India xviii. 232 The semal or cotton tree. 1932Pearson & Brown Comm. Timbers India 138 The primary use of semul is for tea and rubber boxes. |