myrobalan plum
- noun
- /ˌmɪrəˈbælən plʌm/
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ciruela mirabolano
- The myrobalan plum is commonly planted as an ornamental tree in city gardens.
Examples
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She made a delicious jam from the ripe myrobalan plum harvested from her backyard.
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I picked a myrobalan plum from the garden.
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Some herbal medicines use extracts from the leaves and fruit of the myrobalan plum.
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The myrobalan plum tree blooms beautifully in spring.
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She made a delicious jam from the ripe myrobalan plum harvested from her backyard.
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Some herbal medicines use extracts from the leaves and fruit of the myrobalan plum.
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The myrobalan plum is commonly planted as an ornamental tree in city gardens.
Synonyms
A small tree that makes red or yellow fruit called cherry plum
A small Asian tree that makes small round fruit like a cherry or plum
A small Asian tree with red or yellow fruit used for food and medicine
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a type of plum associated with the myrobalan tree' is directly and literally derived from combining 'myrobalan' (a tree known for edible fruit) with 'plum' (the fruit). This noun–noun species/variety naming pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so learners who know both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Myrobalan plum comes from an old word myrobalan that may mean fruit kept as a 'preserve' or 'jam'. Because people used this small Asian plum for jams and simple 'medicine', the name came to mean the small tree and its fruit.
