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Definition of Beach plum
1. Noun. Seacoast shrub of northeastern North America having showy white blossoms and edible purple fruit.
2. Noun. Small dark purple fruit used especially in jams and pies.
Definition of Beach plum
1. Noun. A tree, ''Prunus maritima'', bearing small plums, found along the US Atlantic coast from Maine to Maryland. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beach Plum
Literary usage of Beach plum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketch of the Evolution of Our Native Fruits by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1898)
"Prunus maritima, as this beach plum is called, is in cultivation as an ornamental
... This variety is a third larger than the ordinary wild beach plum, ..."
2. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"... THE beach plum (Prunus maritime) The white flowers are succeeded by little
globular, sweet fruits, coated with a pale bloom. ..."
3. Experiments with Plants by Winthrop John Van Leuven Osterhout (1917)
"The parents are: beach plum on the right, an American Plum on the left. ...
The Improved beach plum, as it is called, bears so abundantly that the fruit ..."
4. A Year Among the Trees: Or, The Woods and By-ways of New England by Wilson Flagg (1881)
"... but there are two indigenous species which in some places are conspicuous
objects in our fields. The beach-plum requires no description. ..."
5. Agriculture for Schools of the Pacific Slope by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard, Winthrop John Van Leuven Osterhout (1910)
"The improved beach plum is shown in the center. ... And it has the hardiness of
the beach plum, and will grow in all kinds of soils where the American plum ..."
6. Wild-flower Sonnets by Emily Shaw Forman (1894)
"BEACH-PLUM. Г IKE childhood's smile, half trusting, half afraid, A thought of
Spring steals o'er the landscape's face; Told in the slender wind-flower's ..."
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