Translingual

Bombax ceiba tree with fallen seeds

Proper noun

Bombax n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Malvaceae – the cotton trees, of tropical and subtropical environments in the Old World and Australia.

Usage notes

• Formerly included species now in genus Ceiba.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids II - clades; Malvales - order; Malvaceae - family; Bombacoideae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Bombax ceiba - type species; Bombax buonopozense, Bombax costatum, Bombax insigne, Bombax mossambicense - species; for species formerly included see Bombax at The Plant List

English

Bombax ceiba flower

Noun

bombax ‎(plural bombaxes)

1. Any member of the genus Bombax of tropical trees in the mallow family.

Synonyms

• (tree in Bombax): cotton tree

See also

• bombax on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bombax on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βομβάξ ‎(bombáx).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbom.baks/

Interjection

bombax!

1. indeed! strange! Used to express real or affected surprise.

References

• bombax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• BOMBAX in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bombax”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.