silk-cotton tree (redirected from silk-cotton trees)

silk-cot·ton tree  (slkktn)

n.

1. A spiny, deciduous, tropical tree (Ceiba pentandra) having palmately compound leaves and cultivated for its leathery fruit that contain the silklike fiber kapok.

2. Either of two trees (Bombax ceiba or Cochlospermum religiosum) having seeds surrounded by silky hairs.

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silk-cotton tree

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of several tropical bombacaceous trees of the genus Ceiba, esp Ceiba pentandra, having seeds covered with silky hairs from which kapok is obtained Also called kapok tree

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Noun

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silk-cotton tree - 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 Bombay ceiba, Ceiba pentandra, ceiba tree, God tree, white silk-cotton tree, kapok angiospermous tree, flowering tree - any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary