ceiba tree

1. 1.

   massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber

   Synonymskapoksilk-cotton treewhite silk-cotton treeBombay ceibaGod treeCeiba pentandra

   Broaderangiospermous tree

Questions about ceiba tree

What does ceiba tree mean?

ceiba tree means "massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber".

What is another word for ceiba tree?

Close synonyms include kapok, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree, Bombay ceiba, God tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ceiba tree a common word?

ceiba tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.