HyperDic: japanese_plum

English > 3 senses of the expression *Japanese plum*:
NOUN	plant	Japanese plum, Prunus salicina	small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor
	plant	Japanese plum, loquat, loquat tree, Japanese medlar, Eriobotrya japonica	evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone
	food	Japanese plum, loquat	yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh

English > *Japanese plum*: 3 senses > noun 1, plant
Meaning	small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor.
Synonym	Prunus salicina
Broader	plum, plum tree	Any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

English > *Japanese plum*: 3 senses > noun 2, plant
Meaning	evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan.
Synonyms	loquat, loquat tree, Japanese medlar, Eriobotrya japonica
Member of	Eriobotrya, genus Eriobotrya	Asiatic evergreen fruit trees
Parts	loquat, Japanese plum	yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh
Broader	fruit tree	Tree bearing edible fruit
Spanish	eriobotrya japonica, níspero japonés, níspero
Catalan	eriobotrya japonica, Eriobotrya japonica, nesprer del japo

English > *Japanese plum*: 3 senses > noun 3, food
Meaning	yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies.
Synonym	loquat
Part of	loquat, loquat tree, Japanese medlar, Japanese plum, Eriobotrya japonica	evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone
Broader	edible fruit	edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh

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