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bombaceous

bombaceous adjective: of the family Bombacoideae (a sub-family of Malvaceae).

Adjective

bombaceous (comparative more bombaceous, superlative most bombaceous)

  1. (relational) Of the family Bombacoideae (a sub-family of Malvaceae)
    • Where several cylinders have been joined together, and squeezed into a cake or ball, the mass is usually wrapped in large leaves, which appear to belong to a malvaceous or bombaceous plant.1896, Sir William Jackson Hooker, Companion to the Botanical Magazine
    • Among the remarkable trees present the best known is the bombaceous Chorisia crispiflora, which has a barrel-like swollen trunk whose loose soft wood acts as a gigantic water-reservoir.1925, Eugenius Warming, Isaac Bayley Balfour, Martin Vahl, Oecology of plants, page 294

Forms of bombaceous

comparativemore bombaceous
superlativemost bombaceous

Origin of bombaceous

From translingual Bombacoideae + -ous.

Questions about bombaceous

What does bombaceous mean?
Bombaceous means of the family Bombacoideae (a sub-family of Malvaceae).
What part of speech is bombaceous?
Bombaceous is an adjective.

Words near bombaceous in the dictionary

  1. bomb-throwers
  2. bomba
  3. bombable
  4. bombacaceous
  5. bombace
  6. bombaceous
  7. bombachas
  8. Bombah Point
  9. Bombala
  10. Bombali
  11. bombard

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