Sekirov Dictionary

plum

/plʌm/

noun23

  1. The fruit and its tree.
  2. An edible, fleshy stone fruit of species Prunus domestica (European plum) and Prunus americana American plum, often of a dark red or purple colour.
  3. A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
  4. The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
  5. Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan).
  6. Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum).
  7. Prunus spinosa (sloe).
  8. Prunus ursina (bear's plum).
  9. Prunus sect. Prunocerasus (North American plums)
  10. Prunus americana (American plum).
  11. Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum).
  12. Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum).
  13. Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum).
  14. Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum).
  15. Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum).
  16. Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
  17. 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.
  18. A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
  19. A dark bluish-red color, the color of some plums.
  20. (UK, disapproving) A fool, an idiot.
  21. [usually plural] (slang, vulgar) A testicle.
  22. (no longer used) A dried grape or raisin, as used in a pudding or cake.
  23. (no longer used) One hundred thousand pounds; (generally) a fortune.

adjective3

  1. Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
  2. Of a dark bluish-red colour.
  3. Plumb.

adverb1

  1. Completely; utterly.

verb1

  1. To plumb.
forms

plummed · plumming · plums · more plum · most plum · plummest

Phrases with plum

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