kapok tree

名词 n.
/ˈkeɪpɒk tɹiː/    /ˈkeɪˌpɑk tɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas and west-central Africa, with white flowers, cultivated in south-east Asia for its seed fibre.
    — 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.
  2. The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), an Asian tree with red flowers.
    — The coastal morning glory was left to creep up a bamboo pole that leaned against the kapok tree.
  3. Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea.; Cochlospermum gillivraei
  4. Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea.; Cochlospermum fraseri

词形变化

kapok trees plural

词源

From kapok + tree.
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