Plum
English Meaning
The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.
- Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Prunus, bearing smooth-skinned, fleshy, edible fruit with a single hard-shelled stone that encloses the seed.
- The fruit of any of these trees.
- Any of several trees bearing plumlike fruit.
- The fruit of such a tree.
- A raisin, when added to a pudding or cake.
- A sugarplum.
- A dark purple to deep reddish purple.
- An especially desirable position, assignment, or reward: an ambassadorship granted as a political plum.
- Variant of plumb.
- Variant of plumb.