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WILD PLUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fruit of the wild plum of southern United States
Synonyms:
hog plum; wild plum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("wild plum" is a kind of...):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
Holonyms ("wild plum" is a part of...):
chickasaw plum; hog plum; hog plum bush; Prunus angustifolia (small native American shrubby tree bearing small edible yellow to reddish fruit)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An uncultivated plum tree or shrub
Synonyms:
wild plum; wild plum tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wild 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild plum"):
Alleghany plum; Allegheny plum; Prunus alleghaniensis; sloe (wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh)
American red plum; August plum; goose plum; Prunus americana (wild plum trees of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh)
chickasaw plum; hog plum; hog plum bush; Prunus angustifolia (small native American shrubby tree bearing small edible yellow to reddish fruit)
beach plum; beach plum bush; Prunus maritima (seacoast shrub of northeastern North America having showy white blossoms and edible purple fruit)
evergreen cherry; holly-leaf cherry; holly-leaved cherry; islay; Prunus ilicifolia (California evergreen wild plum with spiny leathery leaves and white flowers)