ceiba

See also: Ceiba

English

Ceiba pentandra

Etymology

From Spanish ceiba.

Noun

ceiba (plural ceibas or ceiba)

1. Any tree of the genus Ceiba, the best-known of which is Ceiba pentandra.
2. The silk-cotton tree, Bombax ceiba.

See also

• ceibo (Erythrina crista-galli)

Further reading

• Ceiba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ceiba pentandra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bombax ceiba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Galician

Verb

ceiba

1. inflection of ceibar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeiba/ [ˈθei̯.β̞a] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈseiba/ [ˈsei̯.β̞a] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eiba
• Syllabification: cei‧ba

Noun

ceiba f (plural ceibas)

1. silk-cotton tree

Further reading

• “ceiba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10