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Definition of American red plum
1. Noun. Wild plum trees of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh.
Exact synonyms: August Plum, Goose Plum, Prunus Americana
Generic synonyms: Wild Plum, Wild Plum Tree
Generic synonyms: Wild Plum, Wild Plum Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of American Red Plum
Literary usage of American red plum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Handbook of Ornamental Trees by Thomas Meehan (1853)
"Branches sub- spinose. Leaves oval and obovate, acuminate, sharply and often
doubly serrate. Umbels nearly sessile, 2-5-flowered.—American red plum. ..."
2. The Plum in Kansas: With a Chapter on the Prune by Kansas State Horticultural Society (1900)
"... American Red plum is found in the timbered portions of the eastern part of
the state, and is not here in its greatest perfection, this being its western ..."
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