wild plum tree
- noun
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árbol de ciruela silvestre
- A wild plum tree stood majestically at the edge of the forest, covered in sweet, juicy plums.
Examples
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By the wild plum tree at the broken place in the long stone wall where roots have cleft the rocks and made them crumble.
Fiction book (1998) -
Every summer, we would gather under the wild plum tree to enjoy its delicious fruit.
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- That's a wild plum tree.
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- and there's a place back home... ...where a wild plum tree comes to flower in the springtime... ...down by the creek, you know.
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The children enjoyed picking ripe fruit from the wild plum tree in the backyard.
Synonyms
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A wild plum tree from eastern and central North America with red fruit and yellow flesh
A small tree or bush that grows naturally and makes plums
A wild plum tree from eastern and central North America that has red-orange fruit with yellow inside
A wild plum tree in eastern and central North America that makes red-orange fruit with yellow flesh
A wild plum tree from eastern and central North America that makes red-orange fruit with yellow flesh
A wild plum tree in the northeastern United States with dark purple, edible fruit and yellow flesh
A wild tree that grows dark purple plums with sweet yellow flesh
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'wild' modifies 'plum tree' to indicate a plum tree that grows naturally, so the overall meaning is directly derivable from the known constituents 'wild' + 'plum' + 'tree'. This modifier‑noun combination is a common, cross‑linguistic pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the individual words.
Etymology
Wild plum tree is a simple name: it describes a plum tree that grows 'wild', meaning it appears in nature without being planted or cared for by people. So the phrase means a plum tree or shrub that grows naturally and produces wild fruit.