mapou

On Haiti, the kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra.

Noun

  1. On Haiti, the kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra.
    • “They found him beneath a great mapou tree, and one by one he called for his grandchildren, including Max's father.” - 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 75:
    • The mapou belongs to Legba, the master of the crossroads, one of the most important gods in the pantheon, Apollo to Ogoun's Ares. - 2013, Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo, Simon & Schuster, page 78:
    • It was calm and surprisingly cool in the mapou grove. - 2015, Madison Smartt Bell, Soul in a Bottle:

Origin

From Haitian Creole.

Forms

mapous