Definitions for ceibas

ceibas cei·ba

Spelling: [sey-buh or for 2, sahy-; Ceibas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in ceibas (abceis).

Definitions for ceibas

noun

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

Origin of ceibas

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

Examples for ceibas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for ceibas
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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