marmalade plum
- noun
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ciruela mermelada
- She bought a basket of marmalade plums at the market to make sherbet.
Examples
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The ripe marmalade plum has a sweet, tangy flavor that makes it ideal for desserts.
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The chef recommended using marmalade plum in tropical fruit salads for extra flavor.
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I bought a marmalade plum at the market.
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These marmalade plums are perfect for making desserts.
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She bought a basket of marmalade plums at the market to make sherbet.
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The ripe marmalade plum has a sweet, tangy flavor that makes it ideal for desserts.
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These marmalade plums are perfect for making delicious sorbet.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small round or oval fruit with smooth skin and one hard stone
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9.1
A small sweet yellow or red plum often used to make jam and desserts
A fruit grown in hot countries with rough brown skin and very sweet brown flesh
A tropical American shrub or small tree with edible fruit like a plum used in jams and desserts
A small yellow fruit with a large stone and little flesh used for jam
A large sweet plum with red or yellow skin often eaten fresh
A small dark purple fruit that grows on coastal shrubs and people use to make jam
A small tart fruit from a tree or bush that grows naturally
A small red fruit from a South African shrub that tastes sweet when ripe
A small bushy tree with deep red sour fruit used as a hedge in warm regions
Surface Forms
Morphology
marmalade + plum
Although the compound combines the familiar noun 'plum' with 'marmalade' (commonly understood as a fruit preserve or a marmalade-like colour/flavour), that information only gives a vague descriptive relation (a plum related to marmalade) rather than the precise taxonomic meaning given. The specific sense — a particular brown oval fruit used for sherbet — is not directly predictable from the constituents alone, so a B1 learner would need some exposure to learn the exact referent.
Etymology
Marmalade plum may come from the fruit's sweet, jam-like flesh and its orange-brown color. People thought this plum made a jam like marmalade ('a sweet jam'), so the name stuck and now means a plum used for preserves or sherbet.