mirabelle

1 9.1

A small sweet yellow or red plum often used to make jam and desserts

noun

: mirabel

I love the taste of mirabelles in my pie.

Examples

I made a delicious tart using fresh mirabelle plums from the market.
A slice of tart filled with mirabelle is a popular dessert in parts of France.
She made a delicious jam from fresh mirabelle picked in the countryside.
The market stall offered baskets of golden mirabelle during the summer season.
Did you try the mirabelle jam at the market?
At the summer festival, we enjoyed mirabelle jam spread on warm croissants.
She preserved the sweet mirabelle plums for the winter in beautiful jars.

Synonyms

Prunus cerasifera

vsmirabelle

Specialized

1 8.8

A small tree that makes red or yellow fruit called cherry plum

focuses on sweet fruit suited to preserves and desserts rather than the tree

cherry plum

vsmirabelle

1 4.8

A small Asian tree that makes small round fruit like a cherry or plum

is sweeter and used mainly for preserves and desserts

How Sweet

mango

73 1.0

mirabelle

1 9.1

apricot

38 1.0

apple

734 1.0

lemon

308 1.0

Surface Forms

mirabelle singular

mirabelles plural

Etymology

Mirabelle comes from French and from the Latin mirabilis, which means 'wonderful'. The name suggests a 'little wonderful' fruit, and you can see the same root in English words like miracle and admire, which are about wonder. That's why mirabelle now means a small, sweet plum.