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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