Usually means: Tropical tree with silky fibers.
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  1. silk-cotton tree: Merriam-Webster
  2. silk-cotton tree: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. silk-cotton tree: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. silk-cotton tree, silk-cotton tree: Collins English Dictionary
  5. silk-cotton tree: Vocabulary.com
  6. silk-cotton tree: Wordnik
  7. silk-cotton tree: Wiktionary
  8. silk-cotton tree: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. silk-cotton tree: Dictionary.com
  10. Silk-cotton tree: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. silk-cotton tree: Rhymezone
  12. silk-cotton tree: FreeDictionary.org
  13. silk-cotton tree: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. silk-cotton tree: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (silk-cotton tree)

noun:  Any of several large tropical trees:
noun:  Bombax ceiba, native to much of tropical and temperate Asia and Australasia.
noun:  Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa.
noun:  Cochlospermum religiosum, native to the Asian tropics.

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