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US
/ˈsɪɫˌkwʊd/
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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
How To Use silkwood In A Sentence
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