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Noun: calabura
  1. A fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit; bark yields a silky fibre used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves
    - Jamaican cherry, calabur tree, silk wood, silkwood, Muntingia calabura

Derived forms: calaburas

Type of: tree

Part of: genus Muntingia, Muntingia

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