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Bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves
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calabura
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
calabura \calabura\ 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. ...
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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: Jamaican cherry , calabur tree , silk wood , silkwood , Muntingia calabura ]