ceiba
noun
the silk-cotton tree, Ceiba pentandra.
ceibas
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pluralof ceiba.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Driving west from El Hormiguero toward the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, the road wends through ceibas, strangler figs, and sapodillas, a tree prized since Maya times for its chicle gum.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023
The banks of the Manzanares are very pleasant, and are shaded by mimosas, erythrinas, ceibas, and other trees of gigantic growth.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
The sun had slanted slow; ceibas and silk-cotton woods threw a shade dark almost as twilight; but the air was full of breathless heat, and Kettle's white drill clothes hung upon him clammy and damp.
From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Stanley L. Wood
And, indeed, I find myself sometimes looking against the horizon glow for shapes of palms and ceibas.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
The emerald coronels of the giant ceibas on the far lake verge burned softly with a ruddy glow.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
