'Kapok' definitions:
Definition of 'kapok'
(from WordNet)
noun
A plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation [syn: kapok, silk cotton, vegetable silk]
noun
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: kapok, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree, Bombay ceiba, God tree, Ceiba pentandra]
Definition of 'Kapok'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]