ceibo

1. 1.

   small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered

   Synonymscrybaby treecry-baby treecommon coral treeErythrina crista-galli

   Broadercoral tree

Other forms of ceibo

plural

ceiboes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ceibo

What does ceibo mean?

ceibo means "small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered".

How many syllables are in ceibo?

ceibo has 2 syllables: cei-bo. The stress falls on "cei".

What is another word for ceibo?

Close synonyms include crybaby tree, cry-baby tree, common coral tree, Erythrina crista-galli. 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 ceibo a common word?

ceibo 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.