Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun japanese_plum

3 senses of japanese plum

Sense 1
Japanese plum, Prunus salicina -- (small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor)
       => plum, plum tree -- (any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone)

Sense 2
loquat, loquat tree, Japanese medlar, Japanese plum, Eriobotrya japonica -- (evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan)
       => fruit tree -- (tree bearing edible fruit)

Sense 3
loquat, Japanese plum -- (yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies)
       => edible fruit -- (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)