Meaning of Plum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The fruit and its tree.
2. An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
3. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
4. A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
5. A place name:
   countable, uncountable
6. A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, named after Plum Creek (Allegheny River tributary).
   countable, uncountable
7. The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
8. Prunus sect. Prunus
9. Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
10. A township in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
    countable, uncountable
11. Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
12. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Texas, United States.
    countable, uncountable
13. Prunus spinosa (sloe)
14. A village in Le Mont-Dore commune, New Caledonia.
    countable, uncountable
15. Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
16. Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
17. Prunus americana (American plum)
18. Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
19. Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
20. Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
21. Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
22. Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
23. Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
24. 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.
25. A dried grape or raisin, as used in a pudding or cake.
    archaic
26. Extended senses.
    archaic
27. One hundred thousand pounds; (generally) a fortune.
    archaic
28. A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
29. A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
30. A testicle.
    plural-normally, slang, vulgar
31. A fool, an idiot.
    UK, derogatory

Equivalents

Examples

““Bright boy! here’s a plum for you,” and Polly threw a plump raisin into his mouth.”

“Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, eating a Christmas pie; he put in his thumb, and he took out a plum, and said, “What a good boy am I!””

“He […] acquired a plentiful fortune, tho', to his infinite regret, he died before it amounted to a Plum […].”

“The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.”

“Such chances as this do not fall to a man's lot twice; but Edmond Werdet relates a story very similar indeed, and where also the "plums" fell into the lap of a London dealer.”

“As to Rev. Jerry [Falwell], he, of course, is "not anti-homosexual" but "anti-homosexuality." I guess that's his same bit of down home sophistry that explains that God listens to the prayers of Jews, if they are consciously praying to a Christian God, one of the Rev.'s latest dialectic plums.”

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