| Noun | 1. | Japanese plum - small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavorplum, plum tree - any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone | |
| 2. | Japanese plum - evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japanloquat, Japanese plum - yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies | |
| 3. | Japanese plum - yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jelliesedible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh | |