plum

Plural: plums

Noun

• A sweet, fleshy, purple or red fruit with a large pit.
• any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
• any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
• a highly desirable position or assignment
  • "a political plum"
• The fruit and its tree.
• An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
• The fruit and its tree.
• A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
• The fruit and its tree.
• 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)
• The fruit and its tree.
• The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
• Prunus sect. Prunus
• Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
• The fruit and its tree.
• The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
• Prunus sect. Prunus
• Prunus spinosa (sloe)
• The fruit and its tree.
• The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
• Prunus sect. Prunus
• Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
• The fruit and its tree.
• The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
• Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
• Prunus americana (American plum)
• The fruit and its tree.
• The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
• Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
• Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
• The fruit and its tree.
• The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
• Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
• Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
• The fruit and its tree.
• The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
• Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
• Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
• The fruit and its tree.
• The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
• Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
• Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
• The fruit and its tree.
• The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
• Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
• Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
• The fruit and its tree.
• The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
• Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
• The fruit and its tree.
• The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
• 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.
• The fruit and its tree.
• A dried grape or raisin, as used in a pudding or cake.
• Extended senses.
• One hundred thousand pounds; (generally) a fortune.
• Extended senses.
• A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
• Extended senses.
• A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
• Extended senses.
• A testicle.
• Extended senses.
• A fool, an idiot.

Adverb

• exactly
  • "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"
• completely; used as intensifiers
  • "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"

Adj

• Of a dark bluish-red colour.
• Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
• Plumb

Adv

• Completely; utterly.

Verb

• To plumb.

Examples

• Scoring a bonus for PLUM after a triple word score felt like a sweet victory.
• She landed a plum position as an executive for the firm.
• The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.
• You're going to think I'm plum crazy for this, but I want to adopt all seven kittens.

Synonyms

clean, plum tree, plumb, plum-colored, plumtree, ume

Related Words

briolette, damson, greengage, mirabelle, myrobalan, prune, sapote, slivovitz, sloe, umeboshi, umesu

Anagrams of plum