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
   "Local craftsmen harvested silkwood for making barrels";
   - Jamaican cherry, calabur tree, calabura, silk wood, Muntingia calabura

Derived forms: silkwoods, silk woods

Type of: tree

Part of: genus Muntingia, Muntingia

Encyclopedia: Silkwood