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木棉花,木丝棉
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Kapok \Ka*pok"\, n. [Prob. fr. the native name.] (Bot.)
A silky wool derived from the seeds of {Ceiba pentandra}
(syn. {Eriodendron anfractuosum}), a bombaceous tree of the
East and West Indies.
资料来源 : WordNet®
kapok
n 1: from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation [syn:
{silk cotton}, {vegetable silk}]
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 [syn: {ceiba tree}, {silk-cotton
tree}, {white silk-cotton tree}, {Bombay ceiba}, {God tree},
{Ceiba pentandra}]