Definitions for Ceiba

Ceiba cei·ba

Spelling: [sey-buh or for 2, sahy-; Ceiba is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in Ceiba (abcei).

Definitions for Ceiba

noun

  1. the silk-cotton tree, Ceiba pentandra.
  2. silk cotton; kapok.
  3. a seaport in N Honduras.

Origin of Ceiba

1805-15; Spanish Taino ceyba or its cognate in another Arawakan language

Examples for Ceiba

It is not, however, composed of that material, but of the fibre of the cotton-tree (Bombax ceiba).

A balza raft was built out of large trunks of the Bombax ceiba, which, being light wood, was the best for the purpose.

But he knew the ceiba, and the way back to it, all that they needed.

The lovers stood in shadow—but it was the shadow of the ceiba.

Benbax ceiba, a large tree with spongy, light wood, that has immense bunches of purple flowers.

The sacred tree is not named, but presumably it was the ceiba to which I refer elsewhere.

Individuals were most readily observed on the buttresses of some of the gigantic mahogany and ceiba trees.

There are also the Jamaica cedar, and the silk cotton tree (ceiba Bombax).

He tied them to a ceiba, where they had some sort of forage.

The ceiba on the wide savannah has endless room in which to spread.

Word Value for Ceiba
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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