kapok
Nouns
- (n) a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation silk cotton, vegetable silk,
- (n) 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 Bombay ceiba, Ceiba pentandra, ceiba tree, God tree, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree,