kapok tree
nounUK /ˈkeɪpɒk tɹiː/ · US /ˈkeɪˌpɑk tɹi/
Etymology From kapok + tree.
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Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas and west-central Africa, with white flowers, cultivated in south-east Asia for its seed fibre.
- Right smack in the middle of the village is a huge kapok tree, which is where they get together and have their market every fifth day.1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, Faber and Faber, published 2013, page 123:
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The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), an Asian tree with red flowers.
- The coastal morning glory was left to creep up a bamboo pole that leaned against the kapok tree.2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 111:
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Cochlospermum gillivraei
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Cochlospermum fraseri