plum vs common plum

common plum vs plum

plum and common plum both are nouns.

plum is an adverb but common plum is not an adverb.

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

As nouns, common plum is a hyponym of plum; that is, common 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
common plum: any of various widely distributed plums grown in the cooler temperate areas

Other hyponyms of plum include wild plum, wild plum tree, 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, Pacific plum, Prunus subcordata, Sierra plum.

plum (noun)	common plum (noun)
a highly desirable position or assignment	any of various widely distributed plums grown in the cooler temperate areas
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)	common plum (adverb)
exactly
completely; used as intensifiers

Difference between plum and common plum

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