What is the meaning of kapok?

A plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation.
- synonyms: silk cotton, vegetable silk
Massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber.
- synonyms: ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree, Bombay ceiba, God tree, Ceiba pentandra

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