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plum /plum/ noun- An oval drupe or stone-fruit with juicy, sweet-tasting yellowish flesh and typically a purple skin when ripe, or the tree producing it (Prunus domestica or related species) of the rose family
- Extended to various fruits and trees more or less similar (eg sapodilla plum, coco-plum, date plum)
- A raisin as a substitute for the true plum
- Plum-colour
- A sugar-plum
- A big stone embedded in concrete
- Something choice that may be extracted (sometimes in reminiscence of Jack Horner) or attained to, such as one of the best passages in a book, one of the prizes of a career, or a government office as a reward of services, etc
- Formerly, a sum of £100000
- Its possessor
adjective- Plum-colour
- Choice, cushy
ORIGIN: OE plūme, from L prūnum; cf Gr prou(m)non plummˈy adjective - Full of plums
- Plum-like
- Desirable, profitable
- (of voice) unusually rich and resonant, or, loosely, affectedly drawling, esp as thought characteristic of upper-class speech
- (of a person) with a plummy voice, loosely, upper-class
plumˈ-blossˈom noun plumˈ-cake noun A cake containing raisins, currants, etc plumˈ-colour noun and adjective Deep reddish-purple plumˈcot noun A hybrid between plum and apricot, developed by US horticulturalist Luther Burbank (1849–1926) plumdamas /-däˈməs/ noun (Scot) A damson plum-duffˈ noun A boiled flour pudding made with raisins plumˈ-porrˈidge noun An antiquated dish, of porridge with plums, raisins, etc plum-puddˈingˈ noun An English national dish made of flour and suet, with raisins, currants, and various spices plumˈ-stone noun plum tomato noun A large somewhat plum-shaped Italian variety of tomato |