calabura

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calabura - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
          [WordNet 1.5]

calabura - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  calabura
      n 1: 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,
           silkwood, Muntingia calabura]