Look up kapok in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kapok fibre is a cotton-like plant fibre obtained from the seed pods of a number of trees in the Malvaceae...

Kapok, or Kapok fibre, also known as ceiba and Java cotton, is the fine fibres from the fruit of the kapok tree Ceiba pentandra in the bombax family Bombacaceae...

cotton, Java kapok, silk-cotton or samauma. The tree grows up to 240 ft (73 m) tall as confirmed by climbing and tape drop with reports of Kapoks up to 77...

Aerva javanica, the kapok bush or desert cotton, is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It has a native distribution incorporating much of...

independence. On January 1, 2019, during the Hong Kong new year march, the Kapok flag which represents Guangdong independence movement also appeared in the...

cultivated, especially with sugarcane and mango trees. There is a very large kapok tree near the village of Boa Entrada, standing at the bottom of a valley...

The Great Kapok Tree is an American children's picture book about rainforest conservation. It was written and illustrated by Lynne Cherry and was originally...

Kampong Kapok is a village in the north-east of Brunei-Muara District, Brunei and has an area of 1,241.01 hectares (3,066.6 acres); the population was...

Taiwan Stock Exchange in 1997. In 1999, Clevo merged with their subsidiary, Kapok, to increase efficiency.[citation needed] In August 2002, Clevo had built...

tree; red silk-cotton; red cotton tree; or ambiguously as silk-cotton or kapok, both of which may also refer to Ceiba pentandra. This Asian tropical tree...

belongs to the same family as the baobab; the species Bombax ceiba; and other kapok trees. Another tree of the same genus, Ceiba chodatii, is often referred...

145 ft (44 m) in height. The most extensive buttresses are those of the Kapok, or Silk Cotton Tree (Ceiba pentandra), of the Neotropics and tropical Africa...

best-known, and most widely cultivated, species is Kapok, Ceiba pentandra, one of several trees known as kapok. Ceiba is a word from the Taíno language meaning...

of Africa 50,000 to 200,000 years ago. The seed, leaves, and bark of the kapok tree have been used in traditional medicines by indigenous peoples of the...

Cotton tree may refer to: Cotton Tree (Sierra Leone), a kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) that is an historic symbol of Freetown in Sierra Leone Bombax ceiba...

or unofficial symbols of Puerto Rico are the Puerto Rican spindalis, the kapok tree, the coquí frog, the jíbaro, the Taíno Indian, and Cerro Las Tetas...

The Cotton Tree was a kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) that was a historic symbol of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. The Cotton Tree gained importance...

bark, etc.) Plant fiber (coir, ramie, sisal, cotton, flax, hemp, jute, kapok, kenaf, moss, linen, abacá, etc.) Animal fiber (wool, silk, alpaca, camel...

(WCBA). It was known as Guangdong Dolphins from 2007–2018 and Guangdong Kapok before 2007. The Vermilion Bird is a mythical creature in Chinese culture...

The kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) just behind the station - Panguana's landmark...

Plant Abacá Bagasse Bamboo Bashō Coir Cotton Fique Flax Linen Hemp Jute Kapok Kenaf Lotus silk Piña Pine Raffia Ramie Rattan Sisal Wood Animal Alpaca...

Seed fibers and fruit fibers Coir, the fiber from the coconut husk Cotton Kapok Milkweed, grown for the filament-like pappus in its seed pods Luffa, a gourd...

Common names for the genus include silk cotton tree, simal, red cotton tree, kapok, and simply bombax. Currently four species are recognised, although many...

Cotton Advisory Committee International Cotton Association Java cotton (kapok) King Cotton Madapollam Mercerized cotton Sea island cotton The Biology...

along a continuous seam. The core of the ball may be made of long fiber kapok, a mixture of cork and rubber, a polyurethane mixture, or another approved...

Fork at canopy level in a kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra), colonised by an epiphytic Tillandsia...

with kapok, a vegetable material. These soft cells were much more flexible and comfortable to wear compared with devices using hard cork pieces. Kapok buoyancy...

190 – 205 Grape seed oil 94 – 157 Hazelnut oil 83 – 90 Jojoba oil 80 – 85 Kapok seed oil 86 – 110 Lard 52 – 68 Linseed oil 170 – 204 Olive oil 75 – 94 Oiticica...

bamboo, rattan, sarong, and the less common words such as paddy, sago and kapok, all of which were inherited in Indonesian from Malay but borrowed from...

American Airlines in March 2019. The logo of the airline consists of a kapok flower (which is also the city flower of Guangzhou) on a blue tail fin....