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(botany, relational) Of the family Bombacoideae (a sub-family of Malvaceae).
Where several cylinders have been joined together, and squeezed into a cake or ball, the mass is usually wrapped in large leaves, which appear to belong to a malvaceous or bombaceous plant.
Among the remarkable trees present the best known is the bombaceous Chorisia crispiflora, which has a barrel-like swollen trunk whose loose soft wood acts as a gigantic water-reservoir.
Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) in 1805 had already differentiated growth forms such as palms, banana form, malvaceous form, bombaceous form, mimosa form, heather, cactus form, orchids, casuarinas, conifer, arum form, lianas, aloe form, grass form, ferns, lilies, willow form, myrtle form, Melastoma form, and laurel form (see Lomolino et al., 2004).
A bombaceous tree here and there adorned the forest with its numerous purple flowers.
Use bombaceous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bombaceous means (botany, relational) Of the family Bombacoideae (a sub-family of Malvaceae).
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Where several cylinders have been joined together, and squeezed into a cake or ball, the mass is usually wrapped in large leaves, which appear to belong to a malvaceous or bombaceous plant.
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