muntingia | (n) one species: Jamaican cherry; sometimes placed in family Flacourtiaceae, Syn. genus Muntingia |
jamaican cherry | (n) 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, Syn. silk wood, silkwood, calabur tree, Muntingia calabura, calabura |