n. a fast-growing tropical American evergreen (Muntingia calabura) having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves. Syn. -- Jamaican cherry, calabur tree, silkwood. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
(n) 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, Syn. silk wood, silkwood, calabur tree, Muntingia calabura, calabura