cherry plum
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- noun
- /ˈʧɛri plʌm/
- The cherry plum produces fruit early in the season, making it popular among gardeners.
Examples
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I picked some cherry plums from the garden.
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They planted a cherry plum tree at the edge of the orchard.
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Ripe cherry plums can be red or yellow, depending on the variety.
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The cherry plum tree is beautiful in spring.
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Ripe cherry plums can be red or yellow, depending on the variety.
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The cherry plum tree produces fruit early in the season, making it popular among gardeners.
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They planted a cherry plum tree at the edge of the orchard.
Synonyms
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A small round or oval fruit with smooth skin and one hard stone
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A small tree that makes red or yellow fruit called cherry plum
A small Asian tree that makes red or yellow plums you can eat
A small Asian tree with red or yellow fruit used for food and medicine
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Morphology
The term names a color directly composed from two familiar nouns associated with specific hues: 'cherry' (bright red) and 'plum' (dark purplish). A B1 learner who knows both constituents can reasonably infer a deep red–purple shade, and this kind of compositional color-naming is cross-linguistically common, making the meaning transparent.
Etymology
The noun cherry plum may come from how the fruit looks: it is a small, round fruit that can look like a cherry but has the thicker skin of a plum. So the name came to mean the small tree or its fruit.