silk cotton (silkkot"n)

See cotton1. Silk cotton tree, a name of numerous trees of the tribe Bom baceæ of the mallow family, whose seeds are invested with silk-cotton. Such are the species of the genera Bombax, Eriodendron, and Ochroma; also of the genus Pachira of tropical America. The silk-cotton trees most properly so 5630 called are Bombax Mala bar i cum, of the East Indies, and Eriodendron anfractuosum, of India and tropical America.