Bombax Cotton

Bombax Cotton
BOMBAX COTTON
The seed hair obtained from the plant known as the " cotton tree," belonging to the Bombacea; family. The fibre is known as Vegetable Down or Bombax Cotton. It grows in tropical countries. The fibre is soft, rather weak, of white to a yellowish-brown colour, and is lustrous. It is not used by itself for spinning, but is sometimes mixed with ordinary cotton. It is chiefly used as a wadding material. The fibre does not grow directly from the seed as ordinary cotton, but originates at the inner side of the seed-capsule. There are several varieties of plants producing vegetable down, as follows : Brazil - Bombax heptaphyllum; Bombax ceiba. The product is known as ceiba or Paina buifa cotton. South Asia and Africa - B. malabaricum. Known in India as Simal cotton or Red Silk cotton. Venezuela - B. cumanensis, giving a product known as Lana del tamber or Lana vejetale. Brazil - B. Villosum; B. pubescens. South America - B. carolinum. West Africa - B. Phodognaphalon. Known as wild kapok. South Asia and East Indies - B. Pentandrum. This is the kapok of commerce.

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  • bombax cotton — also called  tree cotton, or vegetable down        seed floss of various trees of the Bombax genus of the Malvaceae family; the plants grow in tropical countries and are cultivated in the West Indies and Brazil. The seed floss s individual fibres …   Universalium

  • bombax cotton — noun or bombax floss : a fiber obtained from the bombax …   Useful english dictionary

  • bombax floss — noun see bombax cotton …   Useful english dictionary

  • Bombax — Bom bax, n. [LL., cotton. See {Bombast}, n.] (Bot.) A genus of trees, called also the {silkcotton tree}; also, a tree of the genus Bombax. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • BOMBAX — Italis Bombace, Gallis Cotton, gossipium est, lana vel lanugo xyli; i. e. gossipii fruticis, de quo Plin. l. 19. c. 1. ἐριόξυλον, Ulpiano l. 70. Si cui lana legetur, §. 9. D. de legat. 3. ubi ligneam lanam reddit: Origo vocis a voce Bombyx, quâ… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • BOMBAX CEIBA L. - БОМБАКС КАПОКОВЫЙ — см. 624. Дерево. В. ceiba L. Б. капоковый Sp.pl.(1753) 511. Merrill 3 (1923) 43. Robyns (1963) 88, f. S y n. В. heptaphylla Cav.; В. malabaricum DC. Burkill (1935); Salmalia malabarica Schott. et Edudl.; Melaleuca grandiflora Blanco; Gossypium… …   Справочник растений

  • Cotton Tree — may refer to: The flowering plant, Hibiscus tiliaceus is sometimes known as the Cotton Tree. Various members of the botanical family Bombacaceae (genus Bombax) are often called Silk cotton tree. Kapok, Java cotton tree. Cotton Tree (Sierra Leone) …   Wikipedia

  • bombax — [bäm′baks΄] adj. 〚ModL < ML, cotton: see BOMBAST〛 designating a family (Bombacaceae, order Malvales) of dicotyledonous tropical trees, including the kapok tree, baobab, and balsa * * * …   Universalium

  • bombax — [bäm′baks΄] adj. [ModL < ML, cotton: see BOMBAST] designating a family (Bombacaceae, order Malvales) of dicotyledonous tropical trees, including the kapok tree, baobab, and balsa …   English World dictionary

  • Bombax ceiba — taxobox name = Cotton tree image caption = Cotton tree with only flowers in spring regnum = Plantae unranked divisio = Angiosperms unranked classis = Eudicots unranked ordo = Rosids ordo = Malvales familia = Malvaceae genus = Bombax species = B.… …   Wikipedia

  • Bombax buonopozense — taxobox name = Gold Coast Bombax image caption = Greenhouse grown specimen in Münster, Germany status = LR/lc status ref = cite journal| last = Beentje| first = Henk|coauthor=Sara Smith| title = Plant Systematics and Phytogeography for the… …   Wikipedia

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