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

Derived forms: calaburas

Type of: tree

Part of: genus Muntingia, Muntingia

Encyclopedia: Calabura