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Friday, 26 March 2021

Word To Use Today: bombacaceous.

 The word bombacaceous doesn't mean large, bouncing, amazing and wondrous, it means to do with a group of tropical trees. One of these is the kapok tree:


photo by muffin

and another is the baobab tree:

photo by Bernard Gagnon


Still, bombacacous...it could mean bouncing and marvellous, couldn't it?

Jelly and ice cream? That's bombacaceous!

Bombacaceous is certainly far too magnificent a word to waste on only trees.

Word To Use Today: bombacaceous. This word describes trees of the family Bombacaceae. It comes from the Latin bombyx, which means silkworm or silk (kapok is silky stuff that surrounds the seeds of the kapok tree. It's used for stuffing cushions and things) from the Greek word bombux.




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