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Definition of Muntingia calabura
1. Noun. 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.
Group relationships: Genus Muntingia, Muntingia
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muntingia Calabura
Literary usage of Muntingia calabura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"Genus MUNTINGIA Muntingia calabura L. DATILES. A description of this species ...
Muntingia calabura ..."
2. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1880)
"... sample are brilliant and lustrous, and it possesses considerable strength ;
in fact, seems almost equal to China grass in tenacity. Muntingia calabura. ..."
3. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"Muntingia calabura. CALADENIA. A genus of exquisitely beautiful little terrestrial
orchids inhabiting Australasia, They generally produce one grassy leaf, ..."
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