🍑 A yellow fruit 🍑 A tart plum 🌳 A fruit tree

Japanese plum

6.5

A small yellow fruit with a large stone and little flesh used for jam

noun
/ˈdʒæpəˌniːz plʌm/

: níspero

She made a delicious jam from fresh Japanese plum fruit picked from her garden.

Examples

I made a delicious jelly from Japanese plums.
The Japanese plum has a unique flavor that is both sweet and tart, perfect for desserts.
We planted a Japanese plum tree in our backyard last spring.
Look at that Japanese plum!
She made a delicious jelly from fresh Japanese plum fruit that she harvested in her garden.
My mother loves to use Japanese plum in her recipes for making unique jams and desserts.
Each summer, we enjoy picking ripe Japanese plum fruits to create flavorful jellies.

Synonyms

loquat

vsJapanese plum

1 9.6

A small yellow fruit with a large stone and little flesh often used for jam

is the same fruit but referred to by another name

ume

vsJapanese plum

9.8

A small Japanese plum used to make pickles and jam

is used mainly for making jellies rather than pickles

Prunus salicina

vsJapanese plum

Specialized

9.9

A small tree from China and Japan that produces large yellow or red plums often called the Japanese plum

is a smaller olive-sized fruit used mostly for jellies

Surface Forms

Japanese plum singular

Japanese plums plural

Morphology

Japanese + plum

The meaning 'a plum/tree associated with Japan' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'Japanese' (of or connected with Japan) and 'plum' (the fruit/tree). This is a regular adjective+noun composition indicating origin or type, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Japanese plum is named after fruit from East Asia and brings to mind a small, yellow, olive-sized fruit with a big stone that people cook into jam. That's why the name refers to 'a yellow, olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large central stone and little flesh'.