Hypertext Webster Gateway: "plum"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Plum \Plum\, n.
Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or
choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions,
parts of a book, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Plum \Plum\, n. [AS. pl[=u]me, fr. L. prunum; akin to Gr. ?, ?.
Cf. {Prune} a dried plum.]
1. (Bot.) The edible drupaceous fruit of the {Prunus
domestica}, and of several other species of {Prunus};
also, the tree itself, usually called {plum tree}.
The bullace, the damson, and the numerous varieties
of plum, of our gardens, although growing into
thornless trees, are believed to be varieties of the
blackthorn, produced by long cultivation. --G.
Bentham.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
plum
n 1: any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned
fruit with a single hard stone [syn: {plum tree}]
2: any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or
oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit
adv 1: (informal) exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"
[syn: {plumb}]
2: (slang) completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the
appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn: {clean},
{plumb}]
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