English

Noun

kapok tree ‎(plural kapok trees)

1. The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), an Asian tree with red flowers.
2. Calotropis procera, a shrub with white and purple flowers, native to Asia and North Africa, but considered invasive in other places
3. Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas and west-central Africa, with white flowers, cultivated in south-east Asia for its seed fibre.
   • 1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, Faber and Faber 2013, p. 123:

     Right smack in the middle of the village is a huge kapok tree, which is where they get together and have their market every fifth day.

4. Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea
   1. Cochlospermum gillivraei
   2. Cochlospermum fraseri