Kapok : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Kapok	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Kapok
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kapok n a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation Synonym(s): kapok, silk cotton, vegetable silk 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 Synonym(s): kapok, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree, Bombay ceiba, God tree, Ceiba pentandra
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Kapok \Ka*pok"\, n. [Prob. fr. the native name.] (Bot.) A silky wool derived from the seeds of {Ceiba pentandra} (syn. {Eriodendron anfractuosum}), a bombaceous tree of the East and West Indies.