CEIBA

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Ceiba; genus Ceiba

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

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

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