plum
- noun
- /plʌm/
- The pie was made with ripe plums picked from the orchard.
- fruits such as plums
- peaches and plums
- nectarines and plums
Also, each Peach, pear, plum and I also love love You Forever.
- Also, each Peach, pear, plum and I also love love You Forever.
- We got some raspberries, but mostly it was plums and we didn't actually go for plums.
Examples
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Several fruits, such as plums, currants, and raspberries, were eaten in the Old and New Worlds before 1492.
Academic text (1992) -
You stuck in your thumb and pulled out a plum, my friend.
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I bought you this plum pudding.
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Gonna get me some plums.
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Plums only keep for three days out of season.
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What do you mean you don't like plums?
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I picked a sweet plum from the tree and took a big bite.
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For dessert, we enjoyed a lovely tart filled with fresh plum slices.
Synonyms
A small dark purple plum often used for jam and cooking
A fruit tree that grows sweet plums to eat or make jam
A large sweet plum with red or yellow skin often eaten fresh
A small Asian tree that makes small round fruit like a cherry or plum
A small tart fruit from a tree or bush that grows naturally
A small dark purple fruit that grows on coastal shrubs and people use to make jam
A small yellow fruit with a large stone and little flesh used for jam
A small plum-shaped tropical fruit with light to dark skin used to make jam
A tropical American shrub or small tree with edible fruit like a plum used in jams and desserts
A brown oval fruit with sweet, tangy flesh used for making sherbet
A small tree or shrub that produces edible yellow fruit
Idioms
To make ripe fruit or other things fall from a tree by moving its branches quickly
Compounds
- UK
A rich steamed dessert with dried fruit and spices, often served at Christmas in Britain
A wild plum tree from eastern and central North America with red fruit and yellow flesh
- Informal
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- Archaic
A steamed or boiled sweet pudding made with dried fruit like raisins and currants
- Specialized
A small tree with large leaves and purplish-red fruit often planted in gardens
- US
A shrub that grows on the northeast coast and makes white flowers and purple fruit you can eat
- South African
A small edible red fruit like a plum that grows on a South African bush
- US
A tropical American shrub or small tree with edible fruit like a plum used in jams and desserts
A small dark purple plum or the tree that grows it with a tart taste often used for jam
A wild plum tree that grows in the northeastern United States and makes dark purple fruit with yellow flesh
- US
A wild plum tree in eastern and central North America that makes red-orange fruit with yellow flesh
- Specialized
A low evergreen shrub that grows in cool northern places and has small white flowers and soft white seeds
- US
A wild plum tree from eastern and central North America that makes red-orange fruit with yellow flesh
- Indian
A small tropical bush that makes a dense hedge and has deep red sour fruit
- South African
A large evergreen shrub from South Africa with shiny leaves, thorny branches, and red fruit used as a hedge
- South African
A small red fruit from a South African shrub that tastes sweet when ripe
- Specialized
A shrub from the Pacific coast of the United States that makes small red fruit that is not very sweet
- Specialized
An evergreen South American tree or shrub that makes small plum-like fruit
- Specialized
Evergreen shrubs and small trees from East Asia with seeds that look like plums and leaves like yew trees
- Specialized
An evergreen shrub or small tree with large seeds covered by soft flesh, often grown in gardens
- US
A small wild bush on the US west coast that has small red fruit often too bland to eat
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Etymology
Plum comes from an old Latin word prunum, which also gave us prune. A 'prune' is a dried plum, so both words point to the same sweet fruit.