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Answer for the clue "A fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit ", 8 letters:
silkwood

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Silkwood is a 1983 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols starring Meryl Streep , Cher and Kurt Russell . The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was inspired by the life of Karen Silkwood . Silkwood was a nuclear whistleblower and a labor union ...

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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 , calabura , silk wood , Muntingia calabura ]

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It was a thing of unusual beauty: smoothly carved silkwood with parchment-thin sides and a goodly weight at the base.

There were cottonwoods with feathery foliage and pendant strings of hard-hulled nuts, silkwoods and greenhearts and cedars, stands of fibrous copal trees.