Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name applied to several trees yielding silk-cotton, especially to Ceiba pentandra and C. grandiflora, and in the state of Tabasco to Maximilianea hibiscoides.
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Examples
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The flower of the pochote is spectacular, in the spring, on the lowest extremes of the western barrancas.
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Over igneous hills in the Bajio region, where the climate is warmer, one finds subtropical scrublands, with species like cazahuate or palo bobo, copalillos, acacia, prickly pear, jonote and pochote.
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Other species of trees that can be found are pochote (Ceiba parvifolia), brasil (Haematoxylon brasiletto), cazahuate (Ipomoea spp.), Lysiloma microphylla, and Ipomoea murucoides.
Balsas dry forests 2007
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In the center of the broad, unkempt expanse that served as plaza stood an enormous _pochote_, a species of cottonwood tree, and about it drowsed a Sunday evening gathering half seen in the dim light of lanterns on the stands of hawkers.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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A terrible thing in the hands of a sorcerer is a humming-bird stripped of its feathers, dried, and wrapped in pochote wool.
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