kapok – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
kapok
n.
down-like fibers from the seeds of the tropical kapok tree (used as stuffing and insulation)
Kapok tree
Kapok tree can refer to several plants:
- Bombax ceiba, an Asian tree with red flowers
- Calotropis procera, a shrub with white and purple flowers, native to Asia and North Africa, but a weed in other places
- Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas with white flowers, cultivated particularly in south-east Asia for its seed fibre
- Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea
- Cochlospermum gillivraei
- Cochlospermum fraseri
kapok
Noun
1. from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation
(synonym) silk cotton, vegetable silk
(hypernym) plant fiber, plant fibre
(hyponym) red silk cotton
(substance-holonym) padding, cushioning
2. 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
(synonym) ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree, Bombay ceiba, God tree, Ceiba pentandra
(hypernym) angiospermous tree, flowering tree
Kapok (der)
nm.
kapok, down-like fibers from the seeds of the tropical kapok tree (used as stuffing and insulation)
kapok
nm.
kapok, down-like fibers from the seeds of the tropical kapok tree (used as stuffing and insulation)
