plum

== English == === Alternative forms === plumb (obsolete) === Pronunciation === enPR: plŭm, IPA(key): /plʌm/ (Northern England) IPA(key): /plʊm/ Rhymes: -ʌm Hyphenation: plum Homophone: plumb === Etymology 1 === From Middle English plomme, ploume, from Old English plūme, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, borrowed from Latin prūnum. Doublet of prune. ==== Noun ==== plum (plural plums) The fruit and its tree. An edible, fleshy stone fruit of species Prunus domestica (European plum) and Prunus americana American plum, often of a dark red or purple colour. [from 8th c.] A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica. [from 8th c.] The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow. [from 16th c.] Prunus sect. Prunus Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan). Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum). Prunus spinosa (sloe). Prunus ursina (bear's plum). Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums. Prunus americana (American plum). Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum). Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum). Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum). Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum). Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum). Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots). Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume. (now rare) A dried grape or raisin, as used in a pudding or cake. [from 17th c.] Extended senses. (now rare, archaic) One hundred thousand pounds; (generally) a fortune. [from 18th c.] A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc. [from 19th c.] A dark bluish-red color, the color of some plums. [from 19th c.] Synonym: plum-color (vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle. [from 20th c.] (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot. ===== Synonyms ===== (tree): plum tree, plumtree (edible fleshy fruit of Prunus mume): ume ===== Hypernyms ===== fruit ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Cornish: ploum → Haida: pláms → Manx: plumbis → Japanese: プラム (puramu) → Scottish Gaelic: plumas → Thai: พลัม (plam) ===== Translations ===== ==== Adjective ==== plum (comparative more plum, superlative most plum) (comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour. Synonym: plum-colored (not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred. ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== === Etymology 2 === Phonetically based spelling of plumb. ==== Adjective ==== plum (comparative more plum, superlative most plum) Plumb. ==== Adverb ==== plum (not comparable) Completely; utterly. ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== plum (third-person singular simple present plums, present participle plumming, simple past and past participle plummed) (mining, transitive) To plumb. === Anagrams === lump == Middle English == === Noun === plum alternative form of plomme == Rade == === Etymology === From Proto-Chamic *plum, from Austroasiatic. === Noun === plum land-leech === References === James A. Tharp; Y-Bhăm Ƀuôn-yǎ (1980), A Rhade-English Dictionary with English-Rhade Finderlist (Pacific Linguistics. Series C-58)‎[1], Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, →ISBN, archived from the original on 1 November 2021, page 107 == Romansh == === Alternative forms === plùn, plùm (Sutsilvan) plom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) === Etymology === Inherited from Latin plumbum. === Noun === plum m (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) lead (metal)