calabur tree

Questions about calabur tree

What does calabur tree mean?

calabur tree means "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".

What is another word for calabur tree?

Close synonyms include Jamaican cherry, calabura, silk wood, silkwood, Muntingia calabura. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calabur tree a common word?

calabur tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.