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ˈhog-plum
The fruit of species of Spondias, esp. S. lutea, found in the West Indies and Brazil, where it is a common food for hogs. Also the tree, more fully called hog-plum tree.
1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 123 They have abundance of large Hog-plumb Trees, growing about their Houses. 1725Sloane Jamaica II. 127 Hog plum.—The wood is soft and used for cork. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 229 The Hog-Plumb Tree..The fruit..supplies the principal part of the food of the wild hogs in the season. 1858Hogg Veg. Kingd. 247 The Hog-Plums (Spondias)..of the West Indies and South America..produce fruit which is eatable.
b. In North America applied to several other fruits and the trees that bear them, as the wild-lime of Florida (Ximenia), the Chickasaw plum (Prunus angustifolia), etc.
1889Farmer Americanisms, Hog plum (Ximenia) a tall growing bush found in South Florida, the fruit of which is in size and shape like a plum, and pleasant to the palate. |