silk-cotton tree

What does silk-cotton tree mean?

silk-cotton tree 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 silk-cotton tree?

Close synonyms include kapok, ceiba tree, white silk-cotton tree, Bombay ceiba, God tree. 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 silk-cotton tree a common word?

silk-cotton tree 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 silk-cotton tree come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.