JAMAICAN CHERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jamaican cherry mean? 

• JAMAICAN CHERRY (noun)
  The noun JAMAICAN CHERRY has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: JAMAICAN CHERRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAMAICAN CHERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

calabur tree; calabura; Jamaican cherry; Muntingia calabura; silk wood; silkwood

Hypernyms ("Jamaican cherry" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("Jamaican cherry" is a member of...):

genus Muntingia; Muntingia (one species: Jamaican cherry; sometimes placed in family Flacourtiaceae)