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Examples
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Also the acacias which spread out to give shade, the ceibas, the mango trees, and all such growing wonders help with the heat.
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We waited under the great ceibas for a bus on Tuesday morning.
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The grounds were gorgeous, with lush flowers and shrubs laced with coconut palms and giant ceibas.
The One Week Wife Kay, Patricia 2006
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It is a real tropic forest, palms and bananas, breadfruit trees, bamboos, lofty ceibas, and gorgeous butterflies and brilliant colored birds fluttering among the orchids. . .
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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It is a real tropic forest, palms and bananas, breadfruit trees, bamboos, lofty ceibas, and gorgeous butterflies and brilliant colored birds fluttering among the orchids. . .
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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The sightliest part is the vegetation, glorious ceibas (bombax) used for dug-outs; baobabs, tamarinds which supply cooling fruit and distilled waters; limes and bitter oranges.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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It is a real tropic forest, palms and bananas, breadfruit trees, bamboos, lofty ceibas, and gorgeous butterflies and brilliant colored birds fluttering among the orchids.
Letters to His Children Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1919
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It is a real tropic forest, palms and bananas, breadfruit trees, bamboos, lofty ceibas, and gorgeous butterflies and brilliant colored birds fluttering among the orchids.
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In its vicinity are sugar plantations, tobacco fields, pineapples, cocoanuts, mangoes, royal palms, ceibas, peasants 'homes, typical towns and villages, all the life of the people in the city and country.
Cuba, Old and New 1893
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And, indeed, I find myself sometimes looking against the horizon glow for shapes of palms and ceibas.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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