Definition of Pacific plum

1. Noun. Shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States bearing small red insipid fruit.

Exact synonyms: Prunus Subcordata, Sierra Plum
Generic synonyms: Plum, Plum Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pacific Plum

Pacific blackberries
Pacific blackberry
Pacific blackchin
Pacific bonito
Pacific bottlenose dolphin
Pacific cod
Pacific dewberries
Pacific dewberry
Pacific giant salamander
Pacific halibut
Pacific hemlock
Pacific herring
Pacific loon
Pacific loons
Pacific newt
Pacific plum
Pacific ridley
Pacific sardine
Pacific silver fir
Pacific silver firs
Pacific spiny dogfish
Pacific sturgeon
Pacific tree toad
Pacific tripletail
Pacific walrus
Pacific yew
Pacini
Pacinian corpuscle
Packer
Packer whacker

Literary usage of Pacific plum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Stanislaus and Lake Tahoe Forest Reserves and Adjacent Territory by George Bishop Sudworth (1900)
"pacific plum. The pacific plum is also a rare tree of shrubby habit, forming small thickets on dry slopes of canyons ..."

2. Sketch of the Evolution of Our Native Fruits by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1898)
"This wild pacific plum is Prunus subcordata (Fig. 34). It grows west of the mountains in northern California and southern Oregon. ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"pacific plum. Small tree or bush, usually only a few feet high, but sometimes rising to 20 or 25 ft.: Ivs. round-ovate, or orbicular, obtuse, mostly broad ..."

4. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The little beach plum of the Atlantic coast, the sloes of the Alleghanies and the South, the leathery-leaved pacific plum, and the sand plum of the ..."

5. Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States: Their Names and Ranges by George Bishop Sudworth (1898)
"Prunus subcordata Benth. pacific plum. RANGE.—Southern Oregon to central California (west of the Cascades and Sierra Madre mountains). ..."

6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"... the Beach Plum, the pacific plum, etc., are not sufficiently numerous in cultivation for their treatment to have been determined. ..."

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