silk wood

Questions about silk wood

What does silk wood mean?

silk wood 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 silk wood?

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

silk wood 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.