silk-cotton tree

English

Alternative forms

• silk cotton tree

Noun

silk-cotton tree (plural silk-cotton trees)

1. Any of several large tropical trees:
   1. Bombax ceiba, native to much of tropical and temperate Asia and Australasia.

      Synonyms: kapok, ceiba, kapok tree, mumian, red cotton tree

   2. Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa.

      Synonyms: kapok, kapok tree, mapou, mumian

   3. Cochlospermum religiosum, native to the Asian tropics.

Translations

Bombax ceiba — see kapok tree

Ceiba pentandra — see kapok tree

Cochlospermum religiosum

References

• silk-cotton tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia