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nouna fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and fleshy edible fruit; a 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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Silkwood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Silkwood
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“Silkwood.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Silkwood. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Silkwood,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Silkwood.
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