Usually means: Tropical tree with fluffy seeds.
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  1. kapok tree: Merriam-Webster
  2. kapok tree: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kapok tree: Collins English Dictionary
  4. kapok tree: Wiktionary
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  6. Kapok tree: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (kapok tree)

noun:  Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas and west-central Africa, with white flowers, cultivated in south-east Asia for its seed fibre.
noun:  The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), an Asian tree with red flowers.
noun:  Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea.
noun:  Cochlospermum gillivraei
noun:  Cochlospermum fraseri

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