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| | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: bombax @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | BOMBAX [bombax], common name for the Bombacaceae, a family of deciduous trees, often tall and with unusually thick trunks, found chiefly in the American tropics. |
 | | The family includes many commercially important members, e.g., the baobab ; the balsa, or corkwood (Ochroma lagopus), which yields the lightest lumber in the world; and the kapok and several species of the genera Bombax and Ceriba whose seed fibers are used as filling material. |
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