hog plum

noun

1. tropical American tree having edible yellow fruit

• Syn: ↑yellow mombin, ↑yellow mombin tree, ↑Spondias mombin

• Hypernyms: ↑fruit tree

• Member Holonyms: ↑Spondias, ↑genus Spondias

• Part Meronyms: ↑yellow mombin

2. small native American shrubby tree bearing small edible yellow to reddish fruit

• Syn: ↑chickasaw plum, ↑hog plum bush, ↑Prunus angustifolia

• Hypernyms: ↑wild plum, ↑wild plum tree

• Part Meronyms: ↑wild plum

3. fruit of the wild plum of southern United States

• Syn: ↑wild plum

• Hypernyms: ↑edible fruit

• Part Holonyms: ↑chickasaw plum, ↑hog plum bush, ↑Prunus angustifolia

4. yellow oval tropical fruit

• Syn: ↑yellow mombin

• Hypernyms: ↑edible fruit

• Part Holonyms: ↑yellow mombin, ↑yellow mombin tree, ↑Spondias mombin

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noun

1. : a tree of the genus Spondias; especially : a tropical American tree (S. mombin) sometimes cultivated for its edible yellow fruits which resemble plums

2. : poison-wood 1

3. : the Chickasaw plum or other wild plum of the southern United States

4. : false sandalwood 1

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n. a tropical tree that bears edible plumlike fruit, in particular: ●

a) a Caribbean tree (also called yellow mombin) with yellow fruit (Spondias mombin, family Anacardiaceae)

b) a tropical American tree (also called tallowwood) with bitter fruit and timber that is used as a sandalwood substitute (Ximenia americana, family Olacaceae)

Origin:

late 17th cent.: so named because the fruit is common food for hogs in the West Indies and Brazil