单词 | bombax family |
释义 | bombax family /bom"baks/ the plant family Bombacaceae, typified by tropical deciduous trees having palmate leaves, large and often showy solitary or clustered flowers, and dry fruit with a woolly pulp, and including the baobab and silk-cotton tree. [ < NL (Linnaeus): the silk-cotton tree genus; ML: silk, cotton, alter. of L bombyx silkworm, silk < Gk bómbyx silkworm; see BOMBYCID] |
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