ceiba
Americannoun
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any bombacaceous tropical tree of the genus Ceiba, such as the silk-cotton tree
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silk cotton; kapok
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of ceiba
First recorded in 1805–15; from Spanish, from Taíno ceyba or its cognate in another Arawakan language
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Here's a story about the 400-year-old ceiba tree on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2019
In one entrancing swath of forest, towering ceiba trees loom and hooting howler monkeys leap from branch to branch in the understory.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 26, 2018
Trees include California bay, eucalyptus, ash, oaks, ceiba, ginkgo, chitalpa and Italian and white pine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2015
THE road to Atjoni got more interesting as the wind grew stronger, making the surrounding ceiba trees of the Surinamese jungle murmur with whispers of an impending storm.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2011
Later, after everything has been taken inside, the workmen come out and set up a trampoline under the tall ceiba tree.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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
It is a real tropic forest, palms and bananas, breadfruit trees, bamboos, lofty ceibas, and gorgeous butterflies and brilliant colored birds fluttering among the orchids.
From Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt
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
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 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
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