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Noun: wild plum
  1. An uncultivated plum tree or shrub
    "Wild plum trees dotted the countryside, their fruit a favourite of local wildlife";
    - wild plum tree
     
  2. Fruit of the wild plum of southern United States
    "The wild plums were too tart to eat raw but made excellent preserves";
    - hog plum

Derived forms: wild plums

Type of: edible fruit, plum, plum tree

Part of: chickasaw plum, hog plum, hog plum bush, Prunus angustifolia

Encyclopedia: Wild plum