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PLUM TREE

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Meaning:

Any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

Synonyms:

plum; plum tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("plum tree" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "plum tree"):

plum (any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plum tree"):

wild plum; wild plum tree (an uncultivated plum tree or shrub)

common plum; Prunus domestica (any of various widely distributed plums grown in the cooler temperate areas)

bullace; Prunus insititia (small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters)

big-tree plum; Prunus mexicana (small tree of southwestern United States having purplish-red fruit sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its large leaves)

Canada plum; Prunus nigra (small tree native to northeastern North America having oblong orange-red fruit)

cherry plum; myrobalan; myrobalan plum; Prunus cerasifera (small Asiatic tree bearing edible red or yellow fruit)

Japanese plum; Prunus salicina (small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor)

Pacific plum; Prunus subcordata; Sierra plum (shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States bearing small red insipid fruit)

Holonyms ("plum tree" is a member of...):

genus Prunus; Prunus (a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions)

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