beach plum

Questions about beach plum

What does beach plum mean?

beach plum means "seacoast shrub of northeastern North America having showy white blossoms and edible purple fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for beach plum?

Close synonyms include beach plum bush, Prunus maritima. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beach plum a common word?

beach plum is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.