big-tree plum

1. 1.

   small tree of southwestern United States having purplish-red fruit sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its large leaves

   SynonymsPrunus mexicana

   Broaderplum

Questions about big-tree plum

What does big-tree plum mean?

big-tree plum means "small tree of southwestern United States having purplish-red fruit sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its large leaves".

What is another word for big-tree plum?

Close synonyms include Prunus mexicana. 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 big-tree plum a common word?

big-tree plum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.