silk-cotton tree
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silk-cotton tree (plural silk-cotton trees)
- (botany) Any of several large tropical trees:
- Bombax ceiba, native to much of tropical and temperate Asia and Australasia.
- Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa.
- Cochlospermum religiosum, native to the Asian tropics.
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- (Bombax ceiba): ceiba, kapok tree, mumian, red cotton tree
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