Japanese plum vs plum

plum vs Japanese plum

Japanese plum and plum both are nouns.

Japanese plum is not an adverb while plum is an adverb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Japanese plum	Yes	No	No	No
plum	Yes	No	No	Yes

As nouns, plum is a hypernym of Japanese plum; that is, plum is a word with a broader meaning than Japanese plum:

Japanese plum: small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor
plum: any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

Other hypernyms of Japanese plum include plum tree.

Japanese plum (noun)	plum (noun)
yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies	a highly desirable position or assignment
small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor	any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan	any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

Japanese plum (adverb)	plum (adverb)
	exactly
	completely; used as intensifiers

Difference between Japanese plum and plum

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