plum vs Pacific plum

Pacific plum vs plum

plum and Pacific plum both are nouns.

plum is an adverb but Pacific plum is not an adverb.

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

As nouns, Pacific plum is a hyponym of plum; that is, Pacific 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
Pacific plum: shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States bearing small red insipid fruit

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

plum (noun)	Pacific plum (noun)
a highly desirable position or assignment	shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States bearing small red insipid 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)	Pacific plum (adverb)
exactly
completely; used as intensifiers

Difference between plum and Pacific plum

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