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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
bombacaceae is a noun meaning "tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds". It carries one recorded sense.
tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bombacaceae come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.