2. A variety of the plum. See under {Plum}. [Eng.]
Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from
the {Prunus domestica} are described; among them the
{greengage}, the {Orleans}, the {purple gage}, or
{Reine Claude Violette}, and the {German prune}, are
some of the best known.
Note: Among the true plums are;
{Beach plum}, the {Prunus maritima}, and its crimson or
purple globular drupes,
{Bullace plum}. See {Bullace}.
{Chickasaw plum}, the American {Prunus Chicasa}, and its
round red drupes.
{Orleans plum}, a dark reddish purple plum of medium size,
much grown in England for sale in the markets.
{Wild plum of America}, {Prunus Americana}, with red or
yellow fruit, the original of the {Iowa plum} and several
other varieties. Among plants called plum, but of other
genera than {Prunus}, are;
{Australian plum}, {Cargillia arborea} and {C. australis}, of
the same family with the persimmon.
{Blood plum}, the West African {H[ae]matostaphes Barteri}.
{Cocoa plum}, the Spanish nectarine. See under {Nectarine}.
{Date plum}. See under {Date}.
{Gingerbread plum}, the West African {Parinarium
macrophyllum}.
{Gopher plum}, the Ogeechee lime.
{Gray plum}, {Guinea plum}. See under {Guinea}.
{Indian plum}, several species of {Flacourtia}.
2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.
3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant
language, the sum of [pounds]100,000 sterling; also, the
person possessing it.
{Plum bird}, {Plum budder} (Zo["o]l.), the European
bullfinch.
{Plum gouger} (Zo["o]l.), a weevil, or curculio ({Coccotorus
scutellaris}), which destroys plums. It makes round holes
in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva
bores into the stone and eats the kernel.
{Plum weevil} (Zo["o]l.), an American weevil which is very
destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other
stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped
incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the
pulp around the stone. Called also {turk}, and {plum
curculio}. See Illust. under {Curculio}.