| Noun | 1. | silk wood - 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 genus Muntingia, Muntingia - one species: Jamaican cherry; sometimes placed in family Flacourtiaceae tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms |