bombax

English Thesaurus

1. trees of chiefly South America (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dilleniid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	bombax ceiba, bombax malabarica, red silk-cotton tree, simal,
definition	:	East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	bombacaceae, family bombacaceae,
definition	:	tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds (noun.plant)