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[syn: Jamaican cherry, calabur tree, calabura, silk wood, silkwood, Muntingia calabura]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
calabura \calabura\ 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
calabura
n 1: 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,
silkwood, Muntingia calabura]