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Noun

1. 1
   A tree (Muntingia calabura) native to the New World tropics, now widely cultivated, with ornamental, economic, and environmental uses.
2. 2
   a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and fleshy edible fruit; a bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves wordnet

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calaburajamaican cherrymuntingia calaburasilk woodsilkwood