damson plum

damson plum
noun
1. plum tree long cultivated for its edible fruit
Hypernyms: ↑bullace, ↑Prunus insititia
Part Meronyms: ↑damson
2. dark purple plum of the damson tree
Syn: ↑damson
Hypernyms: ↑plum
3. tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit
Hypernyms: ↑angiospermous tree, ↑flowering tree

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noun
: damson 2; especially : any comparatively sweet damson that suggests the typical plums in flavor

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damson plum,
1. = damson. (Cf.damson)
2. (in England) a plum like the damson but sweeter.

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