beach plum

noun

1. a shrub, Prunus maritima, of the rose family, of the seashores of northeastern North America, having sharply toothed leaves and white flowers.
2. the purple or blackish edible fruit of this shrub.

beach plum

noun

1. a rosaceous shrub, Prunus maritima , of coastal regions of E North America
2. its edible plumlike fruit

Word History and Origins

Origin of beach plum¹

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85

Example Sentences

He went out hurriedly, and, though I shouted after him, he only waved and ducked behind a beach-plum bush.

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"I don't see how you make sech beach-plum preserves, Miss Davis," exclaimed the lady from Nantucket.

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Prudence had made a "two-egg cake" and opened a jar of beach-plum preserves to follow the creamed fish and biscuits.

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But she was glad to learn all that was known about the Beach Plum Point hermit.

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She skirted the outlying clumps of bayberry and beach plum bushes and entered the grove.

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