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BOMBAX

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Meaning:

Trees of chiefly South America

Synonyms:

Bombax; genus Bombax

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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