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JAPANESE PLUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Japanese plum mean?
• JAPANESE PLUM (noun)
The noun JAPANESE PLUM has 3 senses:
1. small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor
2. evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
3. yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
Familiarity information: JAPANESE PLUM used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Japanese plum; Prunus salicina
Hypernyms ("Japanese plum" is a kind of...):
plum; plum tree (any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Eriobotrya japonica; Japanese medlar; Japanese plum; loquat; loquat tree
Hypernyms ("Japanese plum" is a kind of...):
fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)
Meronyms (parts of "Japanese plum"):
Japanese plum; loquat (yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies)
Holonyms ("Japanese plum" is a member of...):
Eriobotrya; genus Eriobotrya (Asiatic evergreen fruit trees)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
Japanese plum; loquat
Hypernyms ("Japanese plum" is a kind of...):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
Holonyms ("Japanese plum" is a part of...):
Eriobotrya japonica; Japanese medlar; Japanese plum; loquat; loquat tree (evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan)
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