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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large deciduous tropical tree (Ceiba pentandra) having a spiny trunk and palmately compound leaves and cultivated for its pods, which contain silky fibers yielding kapok and small edible seeds used for producing oil.
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- noun The
silk-cotton tree .
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The children have studied the animals that live in the rainforest and are now exploring whether the Littles, characters from another story they read, might live in the kapok tree.
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