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Japanese plum vs plum tree

plum tree vs Japanese plum

Japanese plum and plum tree both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
Japanese plum Yes No No No
plum tree Yes No No No
As nouns, plum tree is a hypernym of Japanese plum; that is, plum tree 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 tree: any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
Other hypernyms of Japanese plum include plum.
Japanese plum (noun) plum tree (noun)
yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor
evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
Difference between Japanese plum and plum tree

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