damson plum

Questions about damson plum

What does damson plum mean?

damson plum means "tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for damson plum?

Close synonyms include satinleaf, satin leaf, caimitillo, Chrysophyllum oliviforme, damson plum tree. 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 damson plum a common word?

damson plum is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.