silk wood

silk wood
noun
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
Hypernyms: ↑tree
Member Holonyms: ↑Muntingia, ↑genus Muntingia

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