Local English word record

jamaican cherry

noun · 1 sense

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

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Synonyms

calabur tree, calabura, silk wood, silkwood, muntingia calabura

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