BOMBAX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bombax mean? 

• BOMBAX (noun)
  The noun BOMBAX has 1 sense:

1. trees of chiefly South America

  Familiarity information: BOMBAX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOMBAX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Trees of chiefly South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bombax; genus Bombax

Hypernyms ("Bombax" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Bombax"):

Bombax ceiba; Bombax malabarica; red silk-cotton tree; simal (East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok)

Holonyms ("Bombax" is a member of...):

Bombacaceae; family Bombacaceae (tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds)