[Pān zhī huā, ㄆㄢ ㄓ ㄏㄨㄚ, 攀枝花] kapok (the flower of cotton tree); Panzhihua, new prefecture level city in southwest Sichuan, bordering Yunnan (number 1 in pollution league table) #43,475[Add to Longdo]
[カポックのき, kapokku noki] (n) kapok tree (species of silk-cotton tree, Ceiba pentandra) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries 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) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kapok
n 1: a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and
insulation [syn: {kapok}, {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: {kapok}, {ceiba tree},
{silk-cotton tree}, {white silk-cotton tree}, {Bombay ceiba},
{God tree}, {Ceiba pentandra}]
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