plum

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  1. noun 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.
  2. noun The fruit of any of these trees.
  3. noun Any of several trees bearing plumlike fruit.
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  • The Pershore is a very different plum, green when unripe, and attaining a golden colour later; they are immense bearers and very hardy, frequently saving the situation for the plum-growers when all other kinds are destroyed by spring frosts. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
  • First, the guy who got the plum is a well-known Provincial Conservative fundraiser. —  Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
  • Cherry, plum, and blackberry dominate the palate with sweet tannins on the long, dry finish. —  WINECENTRIC
  • The first Neddenriep families that lived out here on the ranch in the late 1800s had large vegetable gardens and grew orchards of plum, apple, and apricot trees. —  The Record-Courier - Top Stories
  • The plum is absolutely beautiful and the shoe is just sexy overall. —  Zappos.com: new styles
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  1. Middle English, from Old English plūme, from Vulgar Latin *prūna, from neuter pl. of Latin prūnum.

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  1. Formerly also, erroneously, plumb (as in limb for lim, numb for num, etc.); from Middle English plumme, with vowel shortened, earlier ploume, from Anglo-Saxon plūme, ply¯me = Dutch pruim = Middle Low German plume, Low German phumme = Old High German pfrūma, pflūmo, Middle High German pflūme, phlūme, phrūme, prūme, prūne, German pflaume = Icelandic plōma = Swedish plommon = Danish blomme, plum, = French prune (later English prune) = Provencal pruna = Spanish dial. pruna = Italian pruna, prugna, feminine, a plum, from Middle Latin prūna, feminine, a plum, Latin prūnum (plural prūna), neuter, a plum, prūnus, feminine, a plumtree, from Greek προῡνον, neuter, προῡνος, feminine, earlier προῡμνον, neuter, a plum, προύμνη, feminine, a plum-tree. Cf. Irish pluma = Cornish pluman = Gael, plumbas, plumbais, plum (from English ?). For the change of Latin r to l and of n to m, cf. pilgrim, ult. from Latin peregrinus. For the introduction of a Latin and Greek fruit-name into Teutonic, cf. peach and pear, also quine, quince.
 

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