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Silk cotton   /sɪlk kˈɑtən/   Listen
Silk cotton

noun
1.
A plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation.  Synonyms: kapok, vegetable silk.



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"Silk cotton" Quotes from Famous Books



... route was average east over a level country of very bad quality; the soil ironstone gravel, producing terminalia, triodia, and silk cotton-trees (Cochospermum gregoranum). Towards the latter part of the stage the country improved, becoming more open and grassy. At 12.15 camped on a large creek with a shallow pool of ...
— Journals of Australian Explorations • A C and F T Gregory

... here you see the rich banana, Eschol's grape hanging in ripe profusion beneath the shadow of immense paper-like leaves; the feathery cocoa-palm, with its head peering almost to the lofty arched roof; the far-famed silk cotton-tree, supplying a sheet of cream-colored blossoms, at a season when all outward vegetable gayety is on the wane: the singular milk-tree of the Caraccas—the fragrant cinnamon and cassia—with thousands of other rare and little-known species of both flowers and fruits. The Italian Garden—opposite ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 • Various



Words linked to "Silk cotton" :   padding, plant fiber, plant fibre, cushioning



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