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kapok
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun kapok has 2 senses
- kapok(n = noun.substance) silk cotton, vegetable silk - a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation; Array is a kind of plant fiber, plant fibre
- kapok(n = noun.plant) bombay ceiba, ceiba pentandra, ceiba tree, god tree, silk-cotton tree, white 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; Array is a kind of angiospermous tree, flowering tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
kapok, n. [Prob. fr. the native name.].
A silky wool derived from the seeds of Ceiba pentandra (syn. Eriodendron anfractuosum ), a bombaceous tree of the East and West Indies. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
kapok, n. a fine fibrous cotton-like substance found surrounding the seeds of a tropical tree, Ceiba pentandra, used for stuffing cushions, soft toys, etc.
Etymology
ult. f. Malay kapoq
THESAURUS
kapok
blubber, breeze, butter, clay, cushion, dough, down, eiderdown, feather bed, feathers, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, foam, pillow, plush, pudding, puff, putty, rubber, satin, silk, swansdown, thistledown, velvet, wax, wool, zephyr
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