English noun: Muntingia calabura | |||
| 1. | Muntingia calabura (plant) 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 | ||
| Synonyms | calabur tree, calabura, Jamaican cherry, silk wood, silkwood | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | tree | ||
| Member meronym | genus Muntingia, Muntingia | ||