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SILKWOOD

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Dictionary entry overview: What does silkwood mean?

• SILKWOOD (noun)
The noun SILKWOOD has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: SILKWOOD used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SILKWOOD (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

calabur tree; calabura; Jamaican cherry; Muntingia calabura; silk wood; silkwood

Hypernyms ("silkwood" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("silkwood" is a member of...):

genus Muntingia; Muntingia (one species: Jamaican cherry; sometimes placed in family Flacourtiaceae)

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