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Noun: shaving-brush tree
  1. Tree of Mexico to Guatemala having densely hairy flowers with long narrow petals clustered at ends of branches before leaves appear
    "The shaving-brush tree's unusual flowers resembled white bristles against the sky";
    - Pseudobombax ellipticum

Derived forms: shaving-brush trees

Type of: tree

Part of: genus Pseudobombax, Pseudobombax