plum tree

Noun

Meaning

any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

plum-tree

Synonyms

plum beech tree Japanese plum damson cherry plum peach tree plum blossom wild plum plums clean log plum trees

Hypernyms

plant fruit tree

Hyponyms

Japanese plum cherry plum bullace myrobalan Sierra plum Pacific plum

Examples

The plum tree in the yard's so small It's hardly like a tree at all. Yet there it is, railed round To keep it safe and sound.The poor thing can't grow any more Though if it could it would for sure. There's nothing to be done It gets too little sun. Bertolt Brecht

Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I have to ask myself - am I Zhuang Zi who dreamed of a butterfly? Or am I that butterfly, dreaming I am Zhuang Zi? Zhuangzi

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. Francis Marion

A saying goes that the best place to build a house is where a plum tree grows best. Source: Internet

The original plum tree no longer survives, though others have been planted since. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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