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 

• JAPANESE PLUM (noun)

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)