PRUNUS PUMILA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Prunus pumila mean? 

• PRUNUS PUMILA (noun)
  The noun PRUNUS PUMILA has 1 sense:

1. small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit

  Familiarity information: PRUNUS PUMILA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRUNUS PUMILA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Prunus cuneata; Prunus pumila; Prunus pumilla susquehanae; Prunus susquehanae; sand cherry

Hypernyms ("Prunus pumila" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("Prunus pumila" is a member of...):

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