单词 | silk-cotton tree |
释义 | silk-cotton tree (once / 137434 pages) n WORD FAMILY silk-cotton tree USAGE EXAMPLESKapok, 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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