cherry plum

American  

noun

1. a small tree, Prunus cerasifera, bearing edible yellow or reddish fruit.

2. the fruit of this tree.

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cherry plum British  

noun

1. Also called: myrobalan.  a small widely planted Asian rosaceous tree, Prunus cerasifera, with white flowers and red or yellow cherry-like fruit

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Example Sentences

Blue Fruit Farm is an organic farm outside of Winona that has sold blueberries, cherry plums, elderberries, honeyberries and black currants alongside blueberries for six years.

From Seattle Times

Hornbeam, beech, myrobalan or cherry plum and blackthorn also have their advantages, hornbeam being proof against great exposure, blackthorn thriving on poor land and possessing great impenetrability and so on.

From Project Gutenberg

One seedling of the cherry plum is about as good a myrobalan as another.

From Project Gutenberg

It might be a peach or an almond or a cherry plum.

From Project Gutenberg