ceiba
See also: Ceiba
English
Noun
ceiba (plural ceibas or ceiba)
- Any tree of the genus Ceiba, the best-known of which is Ceiba pentandra.
- The silk-cotton tree, Bombax ceiba.
See also
Further reading
Ceiba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Ceiba pentandra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Bombax ceiba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Galician
Verb
ceiba
- inflection of ceibar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Taíno [Term?].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθeiba/ [ˈθei̯.β̞a]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈseiba/ [ˈsei̯.β̞a]
- Rhymes: -eiba
- Syllabification: cei‧ba
Further reading
- “ceiba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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