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Noun: ceiba tree
  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 fibre
    "The ancient Ceiba pentandra tree towered over the rainforest canopy"; "The ancient ceiba tree dominated the village square";
    - kapok, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree, God tree, Ceiba pentandra
Noun: Ceiba  sey-bu
  1. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers
    - genus Ceiba

Type of: angiospermous tree, dilleniid dicot genus, flowering tree

Part of: Bombacaceae, family Bombacaceae

Encyclopedia: Ceiba tree

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