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 emerald coronels of the giant ceibas on the far lake verge burned softly with a ruddy glow.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
Farther out it was whipped into a yellow cream by the thrashing branches of uprooted trees, ceibas and cedars, huge as a church, which rolled and tumbled as their submerged limbs caught on the bottom.
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Herman Whitaker
The vegetation was now of an altered character, the ceibas, lignum-vitæ trees, and creepers were here and there to be seen.
From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Parker Gillmore
There are rare and remarkable trees here,—acomats, courbarils, balatas, ceibas or fromagers, acajous, gommiers;—hundreds have been cut down by charcoal- makers; but the forest is still grand.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
