mapou

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English

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Etymology

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From Haitian Creole.

Noun

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mapou (plural mapous)

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