English > plum: 5 senses > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone. |
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| Synonym | plum tree |
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| Member of | Prunus, genus Prunus | A genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions |
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| Parts | plum | Any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit |
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| Narrower | Canada plum, Prunus nigra | small tree native to northeastern North America having oblong orange-red fruit |
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| Japanese plum, Prunus salicina | small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor |
| Sierra plum, Pacific plum, Prunus subcordata | shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States bearing small red insipid fruit |
| big-tree plum, Prunus mexicana | small tree of southwestern United States having purplish-red fruit sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its large leaves |
| bullace, Prunus insititia | small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters |
| cherry plum, myrobalan, myrobalan plum, Prunus cerasifera | small Asiatic tree bearing edible red or yellow fruit |
| common plum, Prunus domestica | Any of various widely distributed plums grown in the cooler temperate areas |
| wild plum, wild plum tree | An uncultivated plum tree or shrub |
| Broader | fruit tree | Tree bearing edible fruit |
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| Spanish | ciruela, ciruelo |
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| Catalan | pruna, prunera, pruner |
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