Noun: silk-cotton tree
- 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 fibre
"The ancient silk-cotton tree dominated the village square"; "The white silk-cotton tree towered over the rainforest canopy";
- kapok, ceiba tree, white silk-cotton tree, God tree, Ceiba pentandra
Derived forms: silk-cotton trees
Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree
Encyclopedia: Silk-cotton tree