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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Kapok \Ka*pok"\, n. [Prob. fr the native name.] (Bot.) A silky wool derived from the seeds of {Ceiba pentandra} (syn. {Eriodendron anfractuosum}), a bombaceous tree of the East and West Indies. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: kapok n 1: from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation [syn: {silk cotton}, {vegetable silk}] 2: 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 [syn: {ceiba tree}, {silk-cotton tree}, {white silk-cotton tree}, {Bombay ceiba}, {God tree}, {Ceiba pentandra}]
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