Meaning of kapok tree | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas and west-central Africa, with white flowers, cultivated in south-east Asia for its seed fibre.
2. The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), an Asian tree with red flowers.
3. Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea.
4. Cochlospermum gillivraei
5. Cochlospermum fraseri

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Examples

“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.”

“The coastal morning glory was left to creep up a bamboo pole that leaned against the kapok tree.”

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