Definition of Cherry plum

1. Noun. Small Asiatic tree bearing edible red or yellow fruit.

Exact synonyms: Myrobalan, Myrobalan Plum, Prunus Cerasifera
Generic synonyms: Plum, Plum Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cherry Plum

cherry brandy
cherry crab
cherry graph
cherry juice
cherry knocking
cherry laurel
cherry laurels
cherry pepper
cherry pick
cherry picked
cherry picker
cherry pickers
cherry picking
cherry picks
cherry pitter
cherry plum (current term)
cherry red
cherry stone
cherry tomato
cherry tree
cherry trees
cherry wood
cherryade
cherryades
cherrying
cherryless
cherrylike
cherrypick
cherrypicked
cherrypicking

Literary usage of Cherry plum

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

1. Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper: Containing Five Hundred Recipes by Catharine Esther Beecher (1873)
"Ripe Fruit Pie»—Peach, Cherry, Plum, Currant, and Strawberry.—Line your dish with paste. After picking over and washing the fruit carefully (peaches must be ..."

2. On Planting and Rural Ornament: A Practical Treatise by Mr Marshall, Marshall (William) (1803)
"The Varieties which are principally eligible for Ornamental Plantations are, The cherry plum Tree, the Double-blossomed, the Stoneless, the Gold-striped, ..."

3. The Fruit Garden: A Treatise Intended to Explain and Illustrate the by Patrick Barry (1857)
"The cherry plum is a very low tree with bushy, erect branches, ... This and the cherry plum will probably become our principal stocks for dwarfing. ..."

4. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on Planting and Tending of Forest Trees by James Brown (1894)
"But plants of the Privet, Elder, and Cherry-plum, when used for hedging, should be cut over at first in the way recommended in respect to the Hawthorn, ..."

5. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1853)
"We have н]но a very good stock of Pear, Cherry, Plum, Peach, Ac. Grape-vines, Raspberries, Ac Apple Trees? to 9 feet high, 815 to £18 per hundred. ..."

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