GENUS CEIBA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Ceiba mean? 

• GENUS CEIBA (noun)
  The noun GENUS CEIBA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GENUS CEIBA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CEIBA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ceiba; genus Ceiba

Hypernyms ("genus Ceiba" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Holonyms ("genus Ceiba" is a member of...):

Bombacaceae; family Bombacaceae (tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds)