plum
Meanings
Plural: plums
Noun
- 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.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English plomme, ploume, from Old English plūme, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, borrowed from Latin prūnum. Doublet of prune.
Scrabble Score: 8
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Words With Friends Score: 12
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