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Definition: Ceiba |
CeibaNoun1. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Ceiba" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ceiba is the name of a huge tree found in many New World tropical areas, particularly Central America. It can grow to 75 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 man.The Ceiba is central to Mayan mythology, in which it is said to hold up the sky. It is the national tree of Guatemala.
Ceiba is also the name of a city in northeast Puerto Rico and the home of former boxing World Junior Middleweight champion Carlos Santos.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ceiba."
Synonym: CeibaSynonym: genus Ceiba (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ceiba |
| Specialty definitions using "Ceiba": CANDLENUTS ♦ DUGOUTS ♦ FRUIT EDIBLE, COOKED ♦ OIL PLANTS, ONOSERIS ONOSEROIDES, ONOSERIS PURPUREA ♦ SALT SOURCE, SEEDS EDIBLE-RAW ♦ WATER SOURCES, WEDELIA FRUTICOSA. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ceiba" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (Cotton tree, Poxot). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Ceiba or silk cotton tree, Nassau, Bahama Islands. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Equatorial Guinea | In late 1999 Triton Energy, a U.S. independent, discovered La Ceiba in block G in an entirely new area offshore the mainland of the country. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | Triton expects a U.S.$200m development program to enable La Ceiba and associated fields to produce 100,000 b/d by late 2001, despite disappointments and technical problems at the beginning of the year. (references) | |
Travel | Honduras | Four international airports serve the capital city of Tegucigalpa, the commercial center of San Pedro Sula, the coastal city of La Ceiba, and the island of Roatán. (references) |
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| "Ceiba" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ceiba" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Ceiba, PR (comunidad, FIPS 16139) |
Expressions using "Ceiba": bombax ceiba ♦ Bombay ceiba ♦ Ceiba pentandra ♦ ceiba tree ♦ Ceiba zona ♦ genus Ceiba. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
airport ceiba honduras la | 67 | la ceiba hotel | 7 |
la ceiba | 50 | el cid la ceiba cozumel | 6 |
la ceiba honduras | 36 | ceiba de historia la | 4 |
ceiba | 34 | ceiba del mar hotel | 4 |
ceiba pentandra | 19 | ceiba honduras | 4 |
ceiba del mar | 19 | ceiba hotel | 3 |
ceiba pr | 13 | ceiba ciudad de de historia la la | 3 |
el cid la ceiba | 9 | la ceiba cozumel | 3 |
ceiba del mar hotel and spa | 8 | ceiba country inn | 2 |
ceiba puerto rico | 7 | arbol ceiba de | 2 |
ceiba tree | 7 | ceiba cid el la review | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Ceiba"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | ceiba (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), kapoktrae (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). (various references) | |
Dutch | kankantrie (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), fromager (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). (various references) | |
Finnish | capoc (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), seiba (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), kapokkipuu (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). (various references) | |
French | ceiba (ceiba tree), okha (ceiba tree), fuma (ceiba tree), fromager (ceiba tree), doum (ceiba tree), arbre à kapok (ceiba tree). (various references) | |
German | Ceiba (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), Silk cotton tree (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), Kapokier (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), Fromager (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), Baumwollbaum (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). (various references) | |
Italian | ceiba (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree), fromager (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eibacay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mafumeira (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). (various references) | |
Swedish | kapok (ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ceiba pentandra, Ceiba thoningii. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Ceiba": ceibas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i" | |
-1 letter: bice. | |
-2 letters: ace, cab, ice. | |
-3 letters: ab, ae, ai, ba, be, bi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i" | |
+1 letter: amebic, biface, cabbie, caribe, ceibas. | |
+2 letters: abscise, acerbic, aerobic, alembic, amoebic, ascribe, babiche, bifaces, breccia, cabbies, cabined, cabinet, caliber, calibre, carbide, carbine, caribes, cembali, citable, dieback, iceboat, pedicab, scabies, sebacic, sebasic, tabetic, tieback, zebraic. | |
+3 letters: abbacies, abdicate, abidance, abscised, abscises, acerbity, aerobics, albicore, alembics, ambiance, ambience, amicable, asbestic, ascribed, ascribes, babiches, backbite, backfire, backside, bacteria, bacterin, baculine, balletic, barbicel, bathetic, beachier, beaching, beatific, bedchair, biacetyl, binnacle, bioclean, birdcage, boniface, boracite, braciole, brattice, breccial, breccias, brisance, cabinets, cabriole, calibers, calibred, calibres, carabine, carbides, carbines, catbrier, celibacy, celibate, citeable, coinable, crabbier, crabwise, cribbage, diabetic, diebacks, fireback, giveback, iceboats, incubate, kickable, micawber, pedicabs, rabietic, scabbier, scablike, sociable, tabetics, tiebacks, vibrance, zwieback. | |
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