muntingia 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 treecalaburasilk woodsilkwood

   Broadertree

   Part ofMuntingia

Questions about muntingia calabura

What does muntingia calabura mean?

muntingia 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".

What is another word for muntingia calabura?

Close synonyms include Jamaican cherry, calabur tree, calabura, silk wood, silkwood. 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 muntingia calabura a common word?

muntingia calabura 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.