plum-fruited yew

9.9

An evergreen South American tree or shrub that makes small plum-like fruit

noun

Specialized

: tejo de frutos de ciruela

They planted a plum-fruited yew for its ornamental value and unique berries.

Examples

The garden's rare collection includes a plum-fruited yew native to South America.
The plum-fruited yew is native to South America.
Botanists studied the plum-fruited yew to understand its ecological role in its native habitat.
Have you ever seen a plum-fruited yew in person?
The garden's rare collection includes a plum-fruited yew native to South America.
They planted a plum-fruited yew for its ornamental value and unique berries.
Botanists studied the plum-fruited yew to understand its ecological role in its native habitat.

Synonyms

Prumnopitys andina

vsplum-fruited yew

Specialized

9.9

A South American evergreen tree with hard wood native to Chile and Argentina

is a general botanical description that highlights plum like fruit and family

Surface Forms

plum-fruited yew singular

plum-fruited yews plural

Morphology

plum-fruited + yew

The compound is transparently composed: 'plum-fruited' straightforwardly means 'having plum-like fruit' (plum + fruited) and combined with 'yew' yields 'a yew that bears plum-like fruits.' The construction follows a common adjectival Noun pattern (modifier describing fruit type), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

The noun plum-fruited yew comes from a simple image: yew is the tree and plum-fruited shows it has round berries that look like plums, so the name means 'a yew tree with plum-like fruit'.