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silk cotton tree

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silk-cot⋅ton tree

  [silk-kot-n]
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–noun
any of several spiny trees belonging to the genus Ceiba, of the bombax family, having palmately compound leaves and seeds surrounded by silk cotton, esp. C. pentandra, from which kapok is obtained.
Origin:
1705–15
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