plum vs wild plum

wild plum vs plum

plum and wild plum both are nouns.

plum is an adverb but wild plum is not an adverb.

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

As nouns, wild plum is a hyponym of plum; that is, wild 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
wild plum: an uncultivated plum tree or shrub

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

plum (noun)	wild plum (noun)
a highly desirable position or assignment	fruit of the wild plum of southern United States
any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit	an uncultivated plum tree or shrub
any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

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

Difference between plum and wild plum

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