Bom·bax n. Bot. A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.
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silk-cotton tree
n : 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: kapok, ceiba
tree, white silk-cotton tree, Bombay ceiba, God
tree, Ceiba pentandra]