n. [ From Jamaica. ] (Chem.) An alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Geoffroya inermis, a leguminous tree growing in Jamaica and Surinam; -- called also jamacina. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]
(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