beach plum bush
- noun
- US
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arbusto de ciruela de playa
- We found a beach plum bush growing near the dunes, its purple fruit ripe for picking.
Examples
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Wildlife often feed on the berries of the beach plum bush along the shoreline.
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The spring blossoms of the beach plum bush attract many bees and other pollinators.
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The beach plum bush blooms beautifully in the spring.
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Many beach plum bushes grow along the coastline.
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The spring blossoms of the beach plum bush attract many bees and other pollinators.
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We found a beach plum bush growing near the dunes, its purple fruit ripe for picking.
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Wildlife often feed on the berries of the beach plum bush along the shoreline.
Synonyms
A shrub that grows on the northeast coast and makes white flowers and purple fruit you can eat
A small shrub by the sea with white flowers and edible purple fruit called beach plum
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'beach' (coast), 'plum' (the fruit), and 'bush' (a small shrub), so a learner can infer it denotes a shrub by the shore that bears plums. Although it refers to a particular coastal species, the compound follows regular English noun-composition patterns, making the sense accessible to a B1 learner who knows the component words.
Etymology
Beach plum bush is a simple, literal name: it is a small bush that grows on the beach and has purple, plum-like fruit, so the name tells you both where it grows and what the fruit is like.
