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    SILK WOOD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     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 stavesplay

    Synonyms:

    calabur tree; calabura; Jamaican cherry; Muntingia calabura; silk wood; silkwood

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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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