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, ↑silk wood, ↑Muntingia calabura
• Hypernyms: ↑tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Muntingia, ↑genus Muntingia
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun : any of several trees with lustrous wood: as
a. : calabur tree
b. : flindersia 2
Useful english dictionary. 2012.