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silkwood

silk·wood

US/ˈsɪˌlkwʊd/ uncommon

noun

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

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Probably an English habitational surname, even though it does not appear in present-day English records.

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