coco plum
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Definition
- Noun:
- A plum-shaped fruit: The coco plum is a whitish to nearly black fruit, typically used in making preserves.
- A tropical tree: The coco plum is a small tree native to tropical America that produces this edible, plum-like fruit.
Usage Examples
Noun (Fruit): The jam was made from sweet coco plums.We gathered the ripe, dark coco plums from the ground.
Noun (Tree): The coco plum is often planted as an ornamental hedge in coastal areas.Birds were nesting in the branches of the coco plum.
Advanced Usage
- Botanical Context: In botanical or horticultural writing, "coco plum" specifically refers to the species .
Variants and Related Words
- Cocoplum: A common alternative spelling for the tree or its fruit.
Synonyms
- Icaco: Another name for the coco plum tree or fruit, derived from its scientific name.
- Paradise plum: A regional name sometimes used for the fruit.
Noun
- plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical American
- small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit