ceiba pentandra

What does ceiba pentandra mean?

ceiba pentandra means "massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber".

What is another word for ceiba pentandra?

Close synonyms include kapok, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree, Bombay ceiba. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ceiba pentandra a common word?

ceiba pentandra is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ceiba pentandra come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.