prunus mexicana

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsbig-tree plum

   Broaderplum

Questions about prunus mexicana

What does prunus mexicana mean?

prunus mexicana 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 prunus mexicana?

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

prunus mexicana 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.