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Meanings of hog plum in English

Portuguese
cajá

Tropical American tree having edible yellow fruit.

        cajá

        Small native American shrubby tree bearing small edible yellow to reddish fruit.

              Fruit of the wild plum of southern United States.

                    Synonyms
                    Examples for "wild plum"
                    Examples for "wild plum"
                    1
                    The wild plum shrubs by the fences were bronzed by September.
                    What Necessity Knows
                    2
                    She was nearing a frivolous grove of birch and poplar and wild plum trees.
                    Main Street
                    3
                    This was a number of wild plum-trees full of fruit.
                    The Voyage of the Rattletrap
                    4
                    Ten to one there's a deer in that thicket of wild plum over there.
                    The Saddle Boys of the Rockies; Or, Lost on Thunder Mountain
                    5
                    Yes, I used to call her the wild plum.
                    An Arkansas Planter
                    Usage of hog plum in English
                    1
                    Here are also hog-plums, custard-apples, soursops, cashews, papaws (called here mamoons) jennipahs (called here jennipapahs) manchineel-apples and mangoes.
                    A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699
                    Translations for hog plum
                    Portuguese
                    cajá