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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
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)
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