plum vs Canada plum

Canada plum vs plum

plum and Canada plum both are nouns.

plum is an adverb but Canada plum is not an adverb.

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

As nouns, Canada plum is a hyponym of plum; that is, Canada plum is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than plum:

plum: any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
Canada plum: small tree native to northeastern North America having oblong orange-red fruit

Other hyponyms of plum include wild plum, wild plum tree, common plum, Prunus domestica, bullace, Prunus insititia, big-tree plum, Prunus mexicana, Prunus nigra, cherry plum, myrobalan, myrobalan plum, Prunus cerasifera, Japanese plum, Prunus salicina, Pacific plum, Prunus subcordata, Sierra plum.

plum (noun)	Canada plum (noun)
a highly desirable position or assignment	small tree native to northeastern North America having oblong orange-red fruit
any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

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

Difference between plum and Canada plum

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