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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bom·bax n.  Bot. A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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]