kapok
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- noun
- /ˈkeɪpɒk/
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árbol kapok
- Before writing The Great Kapok Tree, Cherry traveled to the Amazonian rainforest to study the area and draw sketches for her illustrations.
- kapok tree
Examples
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Cherry's most noted works include A River Ran Wild, The Shaman's Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest, The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest, The Dragon and The Unicorn, and Flute's Journey: The Life of a Wood Thrush.
Academic text (2002) -
After dinner, after eating too many doughnut fritters with guava jelly, I took my leave and climbed up to my special place in the kapok tree.
Fiction book (1999) -
Uh, oh, uh, the, uh, the, uh, major export of Ecuador is kapok.
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When a lumberman enters the forest to cut down a Kapok tree, he falls asleep.
Academic text (2002) -
Lowell was trying to coax it down from the kapok tree.
Fiction book (2002) -
Although the Kapok tree provides many valuable resources to those who harvest them, Cherry's book about it is simplistic in its approach.
Academic text (2002) -
The kapok tree produces lightweight fibers that are often used as stuffing in pillows and mattresses.
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In the rainforest, the kapok tree is known for its towering height and silky fibers that can be harvested.
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Many birds build their nests in the branches of a kapok tree, which provides a safe habitat for young chicks.
Synonyms
A large tropical tree that makes pods with seeds covered in soft floss used to stuff pillows
A very large tropical tree whose trunk has deep grooves and seed pods of soft, fluffy material used for stuffing
A very large tropical tree with a thick trunk and seed pods of silky fibers
A large tropical tree with a rough trunk and seed pods full of soft fibers used for pillows
A very large tropical tree with a rough trunk and pods of soft fibers around seeds used for stuffing
A large tropical tree with a thick bumpy trunk that gives silky kapok fiber
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Etymology
Kapok comes from Malay kapuk, meaning 'cotton' or 'silky fibre', and people soon used the same name for the tree that makes that fibre. That's why kapok also refers to the large tropical tree whose seed pods hold the silky stuffing.