noun
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: ↑Jamaican cherry, ↑calabur tree, ↑calabura, ↑silkwood, ↑Muntingia calabura
• Hypernyms: ↑tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Muntingia, ↑genus Muntingia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.