Japanese plum


noun
  1. a small tree, Prunus salicina, native to China, bearing edible yellowish fruit.

  2. a related shrub, P. japonica, native to China and Korea, having pink flowers and edible red fruit.

  1. the fruit of either of these.

Origin of Japanese plum

1
First recorded in 1900–05

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