plum

IPA: pɫˈʌm

noun

  • The fruit and its tree.
  • An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
  • A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
  • The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
  • Prunus sect. Prunus
  • Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
  • Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
  • Prunus spinosa (sloe)
  • Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
  • Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
  • Prunus americana (American plum)
  • Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
  • Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
  • Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
  • Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
  • Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
  • Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
  • Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
  • (now rare) A dried grape or raisin, as used in a pudding or cake.
  • Extended senses.
  • (now rare, archaic) One hundred thousand pounds; (generally) a fortune.
  • A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
  • A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
  • (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
  • (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
  • A surname.

verb

  • (mining) To plumb.

adjective

  • (comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
  • (not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
  • Plumb

adverb

  • Completely; utterly.
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Examples of "plum" in Sentences

  • He also made the yoga treatment room which they called the plum shed.
  • The root of that roundish fleshy drupe we call a plum is the Latin prunum.
  • I've had it with a sauce that tastes like bbq sauce or something, which they call plum sauce here but looks nothing like the one you had.
  • References: la poubelle (f) = garbage can; plum (just in case, and for the French readers on this list, "plum" is English and the informal of "plumb" -- nothing to do with the juicy fruit) = completely; la clé (f) = key; le clavier (m) = keyboard

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