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 fruits of the calabur tree";
   - Jamaican cherry, calabura, silk wood, silkwood, Muntingia calabura

Derived forms: calabur trees

Type of: tree

Part of: genus Muntingia, Muntingia

Encyclopedia: Calabur tree