SILK WOOD

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

calabur tree; calabura; Jamaican cherry; Muntingia calabura; silk wood; silkwood

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("silk wood" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("silk wood" is a member of...):

genus Muntingia; Muntingia (one species: Jamaican cherry; sometimes placed in family Flacourtiaceae)

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