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kapok trees

kapok trees is the plural of kapok tree.

Meaning of kapok tree

Noun

kapok tree (plural kapok trees)

  1. Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas and west-central Africa, with white flowers, cultivated in south-east Asia for its seed fibre.
    • Right smack in the middle of the village is a huge kapok tree, which is where they get together and have their market every fifth day.1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, Faber and Faber, published 2013, page 123
    Synonyms:
    kapok
  2. The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), an Asian tree with red flowers.
    • The coastal morning glory was left to creep up a bamboo pole that leaned against the kapok tree.2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 111
    Synonyms:
    kapok
  3. Cochlospermum gillivraei
  4. Cochlospermum fraseri

Questions about kapok trees

What is kapok trees the plural of?
Kapok trees is the plural of kapok tree.

Words near kapok trees in the dictionary

  1. kapoc
  2. kapocs
  3. kapok
  4. kapok bush
  5. kapok tree
  6. kapok trees
  7. kapoks
  8. kapoof
  9. Kapooka
  10. Kapoor
  11. kaporos

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