DAMSON PLUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does damson plum mean? 

• DAMSON PLUM (noun)
  The noun DAMSON PLUM has 3 senses:

1. tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit

2. plum tree long cultivated for its edible fruit

3. dark purple plum of the damson tree

  Familiarity information: DAMSON PLUM used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAMSON PLUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

caimitillo; Chrysophyllum oliviforme; damson plum; satin leaf; satinleaf

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

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Plum tree long cultivated for its edible fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

damson plum; damson plum tree; Prunus domestica insititia

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "damson plum"):

damson; damson plum (dark purple plum of the damson tree)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Dark purple plum of the damson tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

damson; damson plum

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

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

Holonyms ("damson plum" is a part of...):

damson plum; damson plum tree; Prunus domestica insititia (plum tree long cultivated for its edible fruit)