Japanese plum

Japanese plum
noun
1. small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor
• Syn: ↑Prunus salicina
• Hypernyms: ↑plum, ↑plum tree
2. evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
• Hypernyms: ↑fruit tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Eriobotrya, ↑genus Eriobotrya
• Part Meronyms: ↑loquat
3. yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
• Syn: ↑loquat
• Hypernyms: ↑edible fruit
• Part Holonyms: ↑loquat, ↑loquat tree, ↑Japanese medlar, ↑Eriobotrya japonica

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noun
Usage: usually capitalized J
1. : any of numerous large showy usually yellow to light red cultivated plums that are sometimes inferior to European plums in flavor
2. : any of numerous plum trees derived from a Chinese tree (Prunus salicina) that are somewhat less hardy than most European and American plum trees and produce Japanese plums
3. : loquat

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1. a small tree, Prunus salicina, native to China, bearing edible yellowish fruit.
2. a related shrub, P. japonica, native to China and Korea, having pink flowers and edible red fruit.
3. the fruit of either of these.
4. loquat.
[1900-05]

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Japanese plum,
a very sweet and juicy yellow, red, or purple plum, native to Japan but now grown commercially, especially in California; salicina plum.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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