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Noun: Japanese plum
  1. Small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavour
    - Prunus salicina
     
  2. Yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
    - loquat
     
  3. Evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
    - loquat, loquat tree, Japanese medlar, Eriobotrya japonica

Derived forms: Japanese plums

Type of: edible fruit, fruit tree, plum, plum tree

Part of: Eriobotrya, genus Eriobotrya

Encyclopedia: Japanese plum

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