prunus salicina

1. 1.

   small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor

   SynonymsJapanese plum

   Broaderplum

Questions about prunus salicina

What does prunus salicina mean?

prunus salicina means "small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor".

What is another word for prunus salicina?

Close synonyms include Japanese 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 salicina a common word?

prunus salicina 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.