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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. trees of chiefly South America;
[syn: Bombax, genus Bombax]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Bombax n 1: trees of chiefly South America [syn: Bombax, genus Bombax]