(n)a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves, Syn.silk wood, silkwood, calabur tree, Muntingia calabura, calabura
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n. a fast-growing tropical American evergreen (Muntingia calabura) having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves. Syn. -- Jamaican cherry, calabur tree, silkwood. [ WordNet 1.5 ]