wild plum
- noun
- /waɪld plʌm/
- US
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ciruela silvestre
- She gathered a basket of wild plums from the woods near her house.
Examples
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The jelly was made using freshly picked wild plums for a tart flavor.
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The wild plums were delicious and tart.
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Birds flocked to the tree when the wild plums were ripe.
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Have you ever tasted a wild plum?
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Last summer, we picked wild plums from the trees along the hiking trail.
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She enjoyed making jam from the tart wild plums that grew in her backyard.
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The wild plums were so flavorful that we decided to make a pie with them.
Synonyms
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A tree that grows edible round or oval fruit with one hard stone
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A wild plum tree from eastern and central North America with red fruit and yellow flesh
A wild plum tree from eastern and central North America that has red-orange fruit with yellow inside
A wild plum tree from eastern and central North America that makes red-orange fruit with yellow flesh
A wild plum tree in eastern and central North America that makes red-orange fruit with yellow flesh
A small North American bush or tree that makes yellow to red edible fruit
A small dark purple fruit that grows on coastal shrubs and people use to make jam
A wild tree that grows dark purple plums with sweet yellow flesh
A wild plum tree in the northeastern United States with dark purple, edible fruit and yellow flesh
A small tree from eastern North America that makes orange-red fruit
A small tree with large leaves and purplish-red fruit often planted in gardens
A shrub from the Pacific coast of the United States that makes small red fruit that is not very sweet
A small wild bush on the US west coast that has small red fruit often too bland to eat
Antonyms
How Edible
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the fruit of a plum tree growing in the wild' is directly and compositionally derived from 'wild' (not domesticated) modifying 'plum' (the fruit). This adjective + noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Wild plum can also mean the small, tart plum fruit picked from those wild trees. Because it is 'not planted' or looked after, wild shows the fruit is natural and often smaller and more sour than a garden plum.