Indian plum

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Noun

Indian plum (plural Indian plums)

1. The osoberry, (Oemleria cerasiformis), a shrub in the rose family, native to the Pacific coast of North America.
2. Flacourtia jangomas, a rainforest tree in the willow family that is widely planted in Asia and Southeast Asia.

   Synonyms: East Indian plum, Indian coffee plum, Indian cherry, puneala plum

3. Flacourtia indica, an Asian shrub often used as a living fence.

   Synonyms: batoka plum, batoko plum, flacourtia, governor's plum, Madagascar plum, Mauritius plum, Rhodesian plum

4. The Indian jujube, (Ziziphus mauritiana), a fruit tree native to the Old World tropics.

Translations

Flacourtia jangomas

• Bengali: পানিয়ালা (bn) (paniẏala), তালী (tali)
• Burmese: နရွဲ (my) (na.rwai:)
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 羅旦梅 / 罗旦梅 (Taiwan)

• Japanese: ナンヨウイヌカンコ (ja) (nan'yō-inukanko)
• Sanskrit: झटा (sa) f (jhaṭā), तामलकी (sa) f (tāmalakī), ताली (sa) f (tālī), तालीशपत्र (sa) n (tālīśapatra), पानीयामलक (sa) m (pānīyāmalaka), प्राचीनामलक (sa) m (prācīnāmalaka), वितुन्नक (sa) m (vitunnaka)
• Sinhalese: රට උගුරැස්ස (raṭa uguræssa)
• Vietnamese: mùng quân (genus Flacourtia in general), bồ quân (genus Flacourtia in general)

Flacourtia indica

• Bengali: বৈঁচি (bn) (bōĩci) (fruit), বঁইচি (bn) (bõici) (shrub)
• Japanese: テンジクイヌカンコ (tenjiku-inukanko), インドルカム (indo-rukamu)
• Kikuyu: mũrũrũ class 3
• Sanskrit: कण्टकारी (sa) f (kaṇṭakārī), वैकङ्कत (sa) m (vaikaṅkata), स्वादुकण्टक (sa) m (svādukaṇṭaka)
• Sinhalese: උගුරැස්ස (uguræssa)
• Swahili: mugovigovi