plum in English dictionary

  • plum

    Meanings and definitions of "plum"

    • The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour.
    • The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
    • A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
    • plum colour:
    • web plum colour:
    • A desirable thing.
    • A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.
    • (pejorative) A fool, idiot
    • (slang, usually in plural) A testicle.
    • The edible, fleshy stone of 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 tree which bears this fruit, Prunus mume. See plum blossom.
    • (comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
    • (not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
    • Plumb
    • Completely; utterly.
    • (mining) To plumb.
    • adjective
      (comparable)
      Of a dark bluish-red colour.
    • adjective
      (not comparable)
      Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
    • adjective
      Plumb
    • adverb
      Completely; utterly.
    • noun
      The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour.
    • noun
      The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
    • noun
      A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
    • noun
      A desirable thing.
    • noun
      (archaic)
      A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling, or a person possessing it.
    • noun
      (dated)
      A good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.
    • noun
      A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.
    • noun
      (pejorative)
      A fool, idiot.
    • noun
      (slang, chiefly in the plural)
      A testicle.
    • noun
      The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species sharing Prunus subg. Prunus with Prunus domestica including, among others:
    • noun
      The stone-fruit trees which bear these fruits.
    • noun
      The fruits of many unrelated trees and shrubs with fruit perceived to resemble plums
    • noun
      The trees and shrubs bearing those fruits
    • verb
      (mining)
      To plumb.
    • Fruit tree belonging to the genus Prunus of the Rosaceae family, cultivated for its fruits, plums
    • (Japanese) plum
    • the fruit
    • the tree
    • the colour
    • a desirable thing
    • ( slang ) testicle
    • edible, fleshy stone of Prunus mume
    • colour
    • choice
    • A fruit of the plum tree.
    • adverb
      completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"
    • adverb
      exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"
    • noun
      any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
    • noun
      any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
    • noun
      a dark reddish purple.
      As a quaternary color on the RYB color wheel, plum is an equal mix of the tertiary colors russet and slate (also known as olive).
    • noun
      a highly desirable position or assignment; "a political plum"

    Synonyms of "plum" in English dictionary

    office, berth, stone fruit are the top synonyms of "plum" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of plum

    • lp  liczba pojedyncza plum, lm  liczba mnoga plums
    • plum ( third-person singular simple present plums, present participle plumming, simple past and past participle plummed)
    • plum ( comparative more plum, superlative most plum)
    • plum ( not comparable)
    • A plum growing on a plum tree. plum ( plural  plums)
    • plum (comparative more plum, superlative most plum)
    • plum (not comparable)
    • plum (plural plums)
    • plum (third-person singular simple present plums, present participle plumming, simple past and past participle plummed)
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