calabura

1. 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

   SynonymsJamaican cherrycalabur treesilk woodsilkwoodMuntingia calabura

   Broadertree

   Part ofMuntingia

Other forms of calabura

plural

calaburas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about calabura

What does calabura mean?

calabura 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".

How many syllables are in calabura?

calabura has 4 syllables: ca-la-bu-ra. The stress falls on "la".

What is another word for calabura?

Close synonyms include Jamaican cherry, calabur tree, 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 calabura a common word?

calabura is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.