Anagrams of: GENUSCEIBA_

• A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern.

• a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.

• a note explaining an absence

• a poor example

• accept an excuse for

• grant exemption or release to

• serve as a reason or cause or justification of

• defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning

• ask for permission to be released from an engagement

• excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with

• A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern.

• A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling.

• Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites.

• the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

• small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated

• aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves

• a member of a people of unknown origin living in the western Pyrenees in France and Spain

• the language of the Basque people; of no known relation to any other language