mapou
English edit
Etymology edit
From Haitian Creole.
Noun edit
mapou (plural mapous)
- On Haiti, the kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra.
- 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 75:
- “They found him beneath a great mapou tree, and one by one he called for his grandchildren, including Max's father.”
- 2013, Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo, Simon & Schuster, page 78:
- The mapou belongs to Legba, the master of the crossroads, one of the most important gods in the pantheon, Apollo to Ogoun's Ares.
- 2015, Madison Smartt Bell, Soul in a Bottle:
- It was calm and surprisingly cool in the mapou grove.