ceiba

Definitions of ceiba
  1. noun
    trees of chiefly South America
  2. noun
    tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers
  3. noun
    massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber
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    type of:
    angiospermo
    any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary
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