silk-cotton tree

Noun silk-cotton tree has 1 sense

• silk-cotton tree(n = noun.plant) bombay ceiba, ceiba pentandra, ceiba tree, god tree, kapok, white silk-cotton tree - 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;
is a kind of angiospermous tree, flowering tree