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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ka·pok /ˈkeˌpɑk/
 木棉花,木絲棉

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ka·pok n.  Bot. A silky wool derived from the seeds of Ceiba pentandra (syn. Eriodendron anfractuosum), a bombaceous tree of the East and West Indies.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 kapok
      n 1: from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation [syn:
           silk cotton, vegetable silk]
      2: 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 [syn: ceiba tree, silk-cotton
          tree, white silk-cotton tree, Bombay ceiba, God tree,
          Ceiba pentandra]