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单词 silk-cotton tree
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silk-cotton tree
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silk-cotton tree
USAGE EXAMPLES
Kapok, ka-pok′, n. a cottony or silky fibre covering the seeds of a species of silk-cotton tree, used for stuffing pillows, &c.
Various, Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictio...(2012)
The ceiba, or silk-cotton tree, at whose base I find in Africa so many votive offerings of fetich worship, they found flourishing on Jamaica.
Nassau, Robert Hamill, Fetichism in West Africa—Forty Year...(2011)
I was much surprised to notice the rapidity with which the silk-cotton tree burst into leaf.
Davey, Richard, Cuba Past and Present(2011)
n massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber
Syn|Hyper
Bombay ceiba, Ceiba pentandra, God tree, ceiba tree, kapok, white silk-cotton tree
angiospermous tree, flowering tree
any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary
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