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

Lexicographical Neighbors of American Red Plum

American painted ladys
American parasol
American parsley fern
American pasqueflower
American pennyroyal
American persimmon
American pit bull terrier
American plaice
American plan
American plane
American pulsatilla
American quaking aspen
American raspberry
American rattlebox
American red elder
American red plum
American red squirrel
American redstart
American robin
American robins
American rock brake
American sable
American saddle horse
American shrew mole
American sign language
American smelt
American smokewood
American smooth dogfish
American spelling
American spellings

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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