plum tree vs Japanese plum

Japanese plum vs plum tree

plum tree and Japanese plum both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plum tree	Yes	No	No	No
Japanese plum	Yes	No	No	No

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

plum tree: any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
Japanese plum: small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor

Other hyponyms of plum tree 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, Prunus salicina, Pacific plum, Prunus subcordata, Sierra plum.

plum tree (noun)	Japanese plum (noun)
any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone	yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
	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 plum tree and Japanese plum

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