Bombax

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bombax \Bom"bax\, n. [LL., cotton. See {Bombast}, n.] (Bot.)
     A genus of trees, called also the {silkcotton tree}; also, a
     tree of the genus Bombax.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  Bombax
       n : trees of chiefly South America [syn: {genus Bombax}]