Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Bombax"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bombax \Bom"bax\, n. [LL., cotton. See {Bombast}, n.] (Bot.)
A genus of trees, called also the {silkcotton tree}; also, a
tree of the genus Bombax.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Bombax
n : trees of chiefly South America [syn: {Bombax}, {genus Bombax}]
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