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Noun: carib wood
  1. Small Dominican tree bearing masses of large crimson flowers before the fine pinnate foliage emerges
    "The carib wood's brilliant crimson display preceded its leaves";
    - Sabinea carinalis
Noun: Carib  ker-ib [N. Amer], ka-rib [Brit]
  1. A member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles
    - Carib Indian
     
  2. The family of languages spoken by the Carib
    - Caribbean language

Derived forms: Caribs

Type of: American Indian, American Indian language, American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerind language, Amerindian, Amerindian language, Indian, Indian language, Native American, tree

Part of: genus Sabinea, Sabinea

Encyclopedia: Carib