genus ceiba

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   tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers

   SynonymsCeiba

   Broaderdilleniid dicot genus

   Part ofBombacaceae

Questions about genus ceiba

What does genus ceiba mean?

genus ceiba means "tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers".

What is another word for genus ceiba?

Close synonyms include Ceiba. 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 genus ceiba a common word?

genus ceiba 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.