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SILK WOOD
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I. (noun)
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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
Classified under:
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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