Kapok

3 definitions found

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

  Kapok \Ka*pok"\, n. [Prob. fr. the native name.] (Bot.)
     A silky wool derived from the seeds of {Ceiba pentandra}
     (syn. {Eriodendron anfractuosum}), a bombaceous tree of the
     East and West Indies.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  kapok
       n 1: from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation [syn:
            {silk cotton}, {vegetable silk}]
       2: 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 [syn: {ceiba tree}, {silk-cotton
          tree}, {white silk-cotton tree}, {Bombay ceiba}, {God tree},
           {Ceiba pentandra}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "kapok":
     blubber, breeze, butter, clay, cushion, dough, down, eiderdown,
     feather bed, feathers, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, foam, pillow,
     plush, pudding, puff, putty, rubber, satin, silk, swansdown,
     thistledown, velvet, wax, wool, zephyr