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Kapok

noun

A plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation. Synonyms: 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. Synonyms: Bombay ceiba, Ceiba pentandra, ceiba tree, God tree, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree.

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Etymology of 'Kapok'

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... Chinese agriculture: cotton. It is often forgotten that, from very early times, the Chinese in the south had used kapok and similar fibres, and that the cocoons of different kinds of worms had been used for silk. Real cotton probably came from Bengal over South-East Asia first to the coastal provinces of China and spread quickly into Fukien and ...

— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard

Words linked to "Kapok" : padding, plant fibre, plant fiber, flowering tree, cushioning, angiospermous tree