Crossword-Solution: KAPOK 5 letters, 59 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The very names of the two kinds of cotton, then evidently a novelty to the Chinese, are found in Borneo: KAPOK is a well-known Malay word; but TAYA is the common name for cotton among the Sea Dayaks, though it is doubtful whether it is found in Sumatra at all, and is not given in Marsden's great Dictionary.

Wrapped in a thick blanket of hand woven _kapok_, he confronted them with that air of dignity and distinction common to those who from early life have dominated the councils of a community.

Upon a slender leafless branch which extended at right angles from the trunk of a _kapok_ tree two large gray wood pigeons had perched side by side in the close communion of mated birds, heedless of the host below them.

Second, as seed hairs; that is fibres that are attached to the seeds of many plants, such, for instance, as the common thistle and dandelion; the cotton fibre belongs to this group of seed hairs, while there are others, kapok, etc., that have been tried from time to time in spinning and weaving, but without much success.

Kapok life-jackets were given out with strict instructions not to use them as pillows but we were not told how long they could remain in the water before they became waterlogged.