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

Usage examples of ceiba.

Winston Smith returned from his assignation with a ceiba tree, all eyes were upon him.

He posed against a ceiba tree, his camouflage fatigues starched and creased, his jump wings flashing on his chest, an Uzi machine pistol slung casually over his right shoulder.

The sun stood at zenith, so hot and dry beating down on them that she began to think she was going to faint, but they finally stopped under the shade of a ceiba and she was allowed to drink from a jug of water stashed there.

He gazed sourly about him, thinking of the macabre figure in the ceiba tree and the scarlet pulp of what had been a living face.

Clouds seemed to break from his mind and with startling vividness he recalled the shadow-play of his conversation with the man in the ceiba tree and the alien, unintelligible replies.

Now when Alison entered his mind it was in company with Merchant-and Merchant led on to Lloyd, Lloyd to Vega, Vega to the unknown in the ceiba tree.

They walked along the river past the town and came to a spot where ceiba trees with slick green leaves and whitish bark and roots like alligator tails grew close to the shore, and there they ate and talked and listened to the water gulping against the clay bank, to the birds, to the faint noises from the airbase that at this distance sounded part of nature.

But the Caribe houses were in evidence, and the turtle stew was tasty, and the fishing was good, and Siete Altares was something out of a South Seas movie, each pool shaded by ceiba trees, their branches dripping with orchids, hummingbirds flitting everywhere in the thickets.

Lupe and I were lying among tall grasses beneath a ceiba tree, its boughs looped with epiphytic vines, and the vines studded with orchid blooms.

When I regained consciousness I was staring up through the crown of a ceiba tree.

On Friday some prison guards installed several women from La Ceiba in the third floor suite.

They walked along the river past the town and came to a spot where ceiba trees with massy crowns of slick green leaves and whitish bark and roots like alligator tails grew close to the shore, and there they ate and talked and listened to the water gulping against the clay bank, to the birds, to the faint noises from the airbase that at this distance sounded part of nature.

Very few people splashed through the mud to the family mausoleum, protected by a colonial ceiba tree whose branches spread over the cemetery wall.

On one of those Sundays he visited the new cemetery adjacent to the church, where the residents of La Manga were building their sumptuous pantheons, and his heart skipped a beat when he discovered the most sumptuous of all in the shade of the great ceiba trees.

Dense macca-fat palms stood next to silk-cotton, or ceiba, trees that soared out of sight, their tops obscured by the midgrowth.