kapok

Examples

• All

• When the Japanese invasion of Java cut off the kapok supply, a domestic source of filling material for life preservers was sought.

  Academic text (1991)

• Kapok fibers from the kapok tree are often used to stuff pillows and mattresses.

• Rabbit doesn't like the color or the texture; he wants old-fashioned Day-Glo kapok from Thomas Edison's kapok trees.

  Fiction book (1990)

• This tree has long been valued for its silky seed-dispersal agent, kapok, which is widely used in the manufacture of life jackets, insulation, and soundproofing material.

  Academic text (1996)

• Well, there are a lot of reasons why I'd . . . I'd drag a girl such as yourself back to this . . . plastic hotel room and . . . rip you off for spare change to run a . . . to run a vibrating machine attached to this queen-size, bulk-purchase, kapok-infested, do-not-remove-tag-under-penalty-of-law type bed and . . . and make you take off all your little clothes . . . until you were nearly STARK RAVING NUDE!

  200 Motels (1971)

• Many manufacturers use kapok as insulation in their eco-friendly products due to its natural properties.

• The silky fiber known as kapok is harvested from the seed pods of the kapok tree.

Synonyms

S

silk cotton

vskapok

4.6

A soft, light fiber from the kapok tree that people use to fill pillows and keep things warm

is broader and used also for stuffing mattresses

V

vegetable silk

vskapok

9.1

Soft, silky plant fiber from a tropical tree that fills pillows and insulates

is broader and used also for stuffing mattresses

How Soft

down

34 4.8

kapok

9.7

cotton

115 1.0

straw

79 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology