ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BOMBACACEOUS
From New Latin Bombācāceae, from Medieval Latin bombāx cotton, from Latin bombyx silkworm, silk, from Greek bombux.
WHAT DOES BOMBACACEOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Definition of bombacaceous in the English dictionary
The definition of bombacaceous in the dictionary is of, relating to, or belonging to the Bombacaceae, a family of tropical trees, including the kapok tree and baobab, that have very thick stems, often with water-storing tissue.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOMBACACEOUS»
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Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science
Both bat species concentrated on one bombacaceous species each month (
Stoner et al. 2003). The sequential use of bombacaceous species by these bats
coincided with the flowering phenology of the tree species. These data suggest
that ...
Mark Donald Schwartz,
2011
2
Durio, a Bibliographic Review
Schumann (1895) described peltate scales 'schuppe' in Durio, and stellate hairs
in Adansonia. He reported that both forms could be found in the tribe Matisieae.
Some typical Malvaceous and Bombacaceous hairs are described and depicted
...
3
ADVANCES IN BOTANICAL RESEARCH APL
By means of fossil pollen grains the history of the bombacaceous plants can, it
seems, be traced back to Late Cretaceous times. Attention should be drawn to
the vague lines of demarcation, in need of revision, between the Bombacaceae
and ...
Reginald Dawson Preston,
1963
... of the tropics are descended from temperate ancestors, and it is indeed a most
striking reminiscence of our northern autumnal season to see a giant silk-cotton
or other Bombacaceous tree standing leafless in a full-foliaged tropical forest.
“Seeds and floss of an apparently undescribed bombacaceous plant, possibly
Bombax. It was recently collected on Camaguin Island, near the active volcano. “
It strikes me that the floss is 'both softer and lighter than is that of the commercial ...
United States. Agricultural Research Service. Plant Science Research Division, United States. Division of Botany, United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Section of Seed and Plant Introduction,
1914
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Torreya: A Monthly Journal of Botanical Notes and News
From the East Indies, where also the tree occurs, large quantities of this floss are
exported to Europe and America under the Malayan name “ kapok,” though the
fiber of Bomhzx malabaricum and perhaps of other Bombacaceous trees is ...
Marshall Avery Howe,
1906
One is the frequency of thorns on old stems, even, in fact, on the boles of big
trees, such as the bombacaceous Chorisia, which render passage less pleasant
than it might be. Another is the rarity of buttress roots in the American tropics, ...
From the East Indies, where also the trees occur, large quantities of this floss are
exported to Europe and America under the Malayan name " kapok," though the
fibre of Bombax malabaricum and perhaps of other Bombacaceous trees is ...
Jamaica. Dept. of Agriculture,
1907
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Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture
From the East Indies, where also the trees occur, large quantities of this floss are
exported to Europe and America under the Malayan name " kapok," though the
fibre of Bombax malabaricum and perhaps of other Bombacaceous trees is ...
Jamaica. Dept. of Agriculture, William Fawcett,
1907
10
Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture
From the East Indies, where also the trees occur, large quantities of this floss are
exported to Europe and America under the Malayan name " kapok," though the
fibre of Bombax malabaricum and perhaps of other Bombacaceous trees is ...
Jamaica. Department of Agriculture, William Fawcett,
1907