SILK-COTTON TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silk-cotton tree mean? 

• SILK-COTTON TREE (noun)
  The noun SILK-COTTON TREE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: SILK-COTTON TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILK-COTTON TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bombay ceiba; Ceiba pentandra; ceiba tree; God tree; kapok; silk-cotton tree; white silk-cotton tree

Hypernyms ("silk-cotton tree" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)