PLUM TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plum tree mean? 

• PLUM TREE (noun)
  The noun PLUM TREE has 1 sense:

1. any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

  Familiarity information: PLUM TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLUM TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

plum; plum tree

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)

 Context examples 

They were still under the white plum tree and their faces were touching except for a pale thin ray of moonlight between.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Perhaps you know that lady." Gatsby indicated a gorgeous, scarcely human orchid of a woman who sat in state under a white plum tree. Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)