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Definition: Ceiba

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.[Wordnet].

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Date "Ceiba" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references)

Common Expressions: Ceiba

Expressions Definition
Bombax ceiba East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Bombay ceiba 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. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Ceiba pentandra 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. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Ceiba tree 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. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Genus Ceiba Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
La Ceiba La Ceiba is the third largest city of Honduras, containing about 250,000 people. It is located on its northern Caribbean coast. It is the capital of the Atlántida department. It has a tropical climate. It is also known as the 'girlfriend' of Honduras. There is a saying that goes "Tegucigalpa studies, San Pedro Sula works, La Ceiba plays". It was named after a huge ceiba tree that used to be by the docks. (references)
La Ceiba Airport La Ceiba Airport (IATA airport code: LCE) is an airport located in the city of La Ceiba, Honduras. It serves air traffic of this city. (references)
Mercedes La Ceiba Mercedes La Ceiba is a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador. (references)

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Specialty Expressions: Ceiba

Expressions Domain Definition
Ceiba pentandra Botanical Seeds of this honey tree, edible after roasting, are ground to make mush. They yield a culinary oil used for illumination and soapmaking. The young fruits are a vegetable like okra. The young leaves serve as a potherb. The floss, irritating to the eyes, is used to stuff life-preservers, etc., and is also used as tinder. Wrapped around the trunk of a fruit tree, it is supposed to discourage leaf cutting ants. Wood ashes are used as a salt substitute and made into soap. The trunk is sometimes used for dugouts. The flowers are eaten by cattle. The Bayano Cuna use the bark in medicine for female troubles (!). A bath of a bark infusion is supposed to improve the growth of hair in Colombia. The same infusion is given to cattle after delivery to help shed the placenta. (references)

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Extended Definition: Ceiba

Ceiba

Ceiba can mean:

  • Ceiba, a genus of trees in the family Malvaceae.
  • Places named after the tree:
    • Ceiba, Puerto Rico.
    • La Ceiba, Honduras.

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Extended Definition: Ceiba

Ceiba

Ceiba
Ceiba pentandra leaves and fruit
Ceiba pentandra leaves and fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae (Bombacaceae)
Genus: Ceiba
Species

About 10-20 species, including:
Ceiba aesculifolia
Ceiba glaziovii
Ceiba insignis
Ceiba pentandra
Ceiba rosea
Ceiba speciosa
Ceiba trichistandra

Buttress roots of a Ceiba tree near the bank of the Amazon close to Iquitos, Peru.
Buttress roots of a Ceiba tree near the bank of the Amazon close to Iquitos, Peru.
Flower of "Palo Borracho". Cordoba, Argentina
Flower of "Palo Borracho". Cordoba, Argentina
Flower of Ceiba speciosa, Paineira rosa. Sao Paulo, Brasil
Flower of Ceiba speciosa, Paineira rosa. Sao Paulo, Brasil
Trunk of Ceiba speciosa, Paineira rosa. Sao Paulo, Brasil
Trunk of Ceiba speciosa, Paineira rosa. Sao Paulo, Brasil
"Chorisia Graviozii, paineira branca". sao paulo, Brasil
"Chorisia Graviozii, paineira branca". sao paulo, Brasil
"paineira branca flower". Sao Paulo, Brasil
"paineira branca flower". Sao Paulo, Brasil
fruits, Sao paulo, Brasil
fruits, Sao paulo, Brasil
fruits, Sao paulo, Brasil
fruits, Sao paulo, Brasil

Ceiba is the name of a genus of many species of large trees found in tropical areas, including Mexico, Central and South America, The Bahamas, Belize and the Caribbean, West Africa, and Southeast Asia. Some species can grow to 70 meters tall or more, with a straight, largely branchless trunk that culminates in a huge, spreading canopy, and "buttress" roots that can be taller than a grown person. The best-known, and most widely cultivated, species is Kapok, Ceiba pentandra.

Recent botanical opinion incorporates Chorisia within Ceiba, raising the number of species from 10 to 20 or more, and puts the genus as a whole within the family Malvaceae.

Ceiba species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species including the leaf-miner Bucculatrix ceibae which feeds exclusively on the genus.

In culture, history

The tree figures in the mythologies of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, in particular that of the Maya civilization, where the concept of the central world tree is often depicted as a ceiba trunk, which connects the planes of the Underworld (Xibalba), the skies and the terrestrial realm.

The Honduran city of La Ceiba was named after a particular ceiba tree that grew down by the old docks. The Puerto Rican town of Ceiba is also named after this tree. Ceiba is also the national tree of both Guatemala and Puerto Rico.

In 1525, Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés ordered the hanging of Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc from a Ceiba tree after overtaking his empire.

In 1898, the Spanish army in Cuba surrendered to the United States under a ceiba, which was named the Tree of Peace (Arbol de la Paz), outside of Santiago de Cuba.

Ceiba insignis and Ceiba speciosa are added to some versions of the hallucinogenic drink Ayahuasca.[1]

Ceibo

Ceiba should not be confused with the vernacular name ceibo (Erythrina crista-galli), the national tree of Argentina and Uruguay.

See also

  • Mesoamerican world tree

External links

References

  1. Ayahuasca Analogues

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Topics by Level of Interest: Ceiba

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Ceiba 57     Bombax ceiba 18
Bombax ceiba 18     Ceiba 57
La Ceiba 9     Ceiba (alternative meanings) 2
Ceiba rosea 4     Ceiba rosea 4
La Ceiba Wildlife Refuge 3     Estadio La Ceiba 3
La Ceiba Bilingual School 3     La Ceiba 9
Estadio La Ceiba 3     La Ceiba Bilingual School 3
Ceiba (alternative meanings) 2     La Ceiba Wildlife Refuge 3
Mercedes La Ceiba 2     Mercedes La Ceiba 2

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Synonyms: Ceiba
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 kapok.

Expression

 genus ceiba.
Consider also: ceiba tree, silk cotton.
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Computed Synonyms: ceiba

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   24.5594   ceiba     ceiba tree     cheese maker, bombax, silk-cotton tree, smoked   
 2   12.0191   ceiba     cheesemaker     cheese-maker, ceiba tree, bombax   
 3   12.0095   ceiba     bombax     ceiba tree, cheesemaker, cheese maker, cheesemonger, cheese-maker   
 4   7.0084   ceiba     silk-cotton tree     ceiba tree   
 5   1.0094   ceiba     kapok     wool, down, cotton, kaolin, silk cotton   
 6   1.0094   ceiba     ramie     China grass, rhea, ramie,-ee, jute, sesame   
 7   1.0093   ceiba     smoked     puffed, fumed, weeded, rooted, bashed   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: ceiba

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   24.5594   ceiba tree     ceiba     cheesemaker, bombax   
 2   12.1191   ceiba tree     cheese maker     cheesemaker, ceiba   
 3   12.0191   ceiba tree     cheesemaker     cheese-maker, ceiba   
 4   12.0190   ceiba tree     cheesemonger     cheesemaker, ceiba   
 5   12.0190   ceiba tree     cheese-maker     cheesemaker, ceiba   
 6   12.0091   ceiba tree     bombax     ceiba, cheesemaker   
 7   8.4489   ceiba tree     silk-cotton tree     ceiba   
 8   1.6695   ceiba cotton     silk cotton     vegetable silk, kapok   
 9   1.0090   ceiba tree     smoked     puffed, fumed   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: Ceiba

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Brazilian Portuguese mafumeira (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Central Danish kapoktrae (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). Additional references: Central Danish, Denmark, Germany, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 木棉树 (bombax, ceiba), 木棉 (kapok, ceiba, silk cotton), 拉塞瓦 (LA ceiba). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Comtois gruyerin (bombax, ceiba, cheese maker, cheesemaker, cheese-maker), gruerin (bombax, ceiba, cheese maker, cheesemaker, cheese-maker), fruitier (bombax, ceiba, cheese maker, cheesemaker, cheese-maker), cacouillard (bombax, ceiba, cheese maker, cheesemaker, cheese-maker). Additional references: Comtois, France, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Corse casgiaghju (ceiba tree, bombax, ceiba, cheese maker, cheesemaker). Additional references: Corse, France, Italy, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsi casgiaghju (ceiba tree, bombax, ceiba, cheese maker, cheesemaker). Additional references: Corsi, France, Italy, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsican casgiaghju (ceiba tree, bombax, ceiba, cheese maker, cheesemaker). Additional references: Corsican, France, Italy, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Corso casgiaghju (ceiba tree, bombax, ceiba, cheese maker, cheesemaker). Additional references: Corso, France, Italy, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsu casgiaghju (ceiba tree, bombax, ceiba, cheese maker, cheesemaker). Additional references: Corsu, France, Italy, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Danish kapoktrae (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). Additional references: Danish, Denmark, Germany, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Dansk kapoktrae (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). Additional references: Dansk, Denmark, Germany, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Dari درخت پنبه هندى (ceiba), درخت گل ابريشم گرمسيرى (ceiba). Additional references: Dari, Iran, Indo-European, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Dutch kankantrie (ceiba, ceiba tree), fromager (ceiba, ceiba tree). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Finnish seiba (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), kapokkipuu (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), capoc (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Français fromager (cheese maker, bombax, ceiba, cheesemaker, cheese-maker), fuma (smoked, ceiba, ceiba tree), okha (ceiba, ceiba tree), doum (ceiba, ceiba tree). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Franc-comtois gruyerin (bombax, ceiba, cheese maker, cheesemaker, cheese-maker), gruerin (bombax, ceiba, cheese maker, cheesemaker, cheese-maker), fruitier (bombax, ceiba, cheese maker, cheesemaker, cheese-maker), cacouillard (bombax, ceiba, cheese maker, cheesemaker, cheese-maker). Additional references: Franc-comtois, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
French fromager (cheese maker, bombax, ceiba, cheesemaker, cheese-maker), fuma (smoked, ceiba, ceiba tree), okha (ceiba, ceiba tree), doum (ceiba, ceiba tree). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Fula gelleeje (ceiba tree), gelleehi (ceiba tree). Additional references: Fula, West Africa, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguk Mal 케이폭나무 (ceiba), 케이폭나무의 섬유 (ceiba), 그 섬유 (ramie, ceiba, ramie,-ee, hemp). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua 케이폭나무 (ceiba), 케이폭나무의 섬유 (ceiba), 그 섬유 (ramie, ceiba, ramie,-ee, hemp). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Hiligainon kapok (ceiba cotton, silk cotton), dul-dol (ceiba cotton). Additional references: Hiligainon, Philippines, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Hiligaynon kapok (ceiba cotton, silk cotton), dul-dol (ceiba cotton). Additional references: Hiligaynon, Philippines, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Ilonggo kapok (ceiba cotton, silk cotton), dul-dol (ceiba cotton). Additional references: Ilonggo, Philippines, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese カポックノキ (ceiba), ラセイバ (LA ceiba). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean 케이폭나무 (ceiba), 케이폭나무의 섬유 (ceiba), 그 섬유 (ramie, ceiba, ramie,-ee, hemp). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Parsi درخت پنبه هندى (ceiba), درخت گل ابريشم گرمسيرى (ceiba). Additional references: Parsi, Iran, Indo-European, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Persian درخت پنبه هندى (ceiba), درخت گل ابريشم گرمسيرى (ceiba). Additional references: Persian, Iran, Indo-European, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Persian (Farsi) درخت پنبه هندى (ceiba), درخت گل ابريشم گرمسيرى (ceiba). Additional references: Persian (Farsi), Iran, Indo-European, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese mafumeira (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Ruotsi kapok (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). Additional references: Ruotsi, Sweden, Finland, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Santiago Crioulu polom (bombax, ceiba, cheese maker, cheesemaker, cheese-maker). Additional references: Santiago Crioulu, Cape Verde, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Sjaelland kapoktrae (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). Additional references: Sjaelland, Denmark, Germany, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomea seiba (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), kapokkipuu (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), capoc (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomi seiba (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), kapokkipuu (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), capoc (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Svenska kapok (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). Additional references: Svenska, Sweden, Finland, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
Swedish kapok (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). Additional references: Swedish, Sweden, Finland, ceiba. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: Ceiba

Language Translations for “ceiba” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag cathageibathaga (ceiba). Additional references: Athag, ceiba. (volunteer)
Double Dutch cageibaga (ceiba). Additional references: Double Dutch, ceiba. (volunteer)
Leet (&!|3/\ (ceiba). Additional references: Leet, ceiba. (volunteer)
Oppish copeibopa (ceiba). Additional references: Oppish, ceiba. (volunteer)
Pig Latin eibacay (ceiba). Additional references: Pig Latin, ceiba. (volunteer)
Terran B faumainr (ceiba). Additional references: Terran B, ceiba. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi cubeibuba (ceiba). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, ceiba. (volunteer)
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Ancestral and Extinct Language Translations: Ceiba

Language Period Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Latin 500 BCE - 1700 Ceiba thoningii (ceiba, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), Ceiba pentandra (ceiba, ceiba tree, Silkcotton tree, silk-cotton tree). Additional references: Latin, ceiba. (volunteer)
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