PLUM

clean, plumb, plum

(adverb) completely; used as intensifiers; “clean forgot the appointment”; “I’m plumb (or plum) tuckered out”

plumb, plum

(adverb) exactly; “fell plumb in the middle of the puddle”

plum

(noun) a highly desirable position or assignment; “a political plum”

plum

(noun) any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit

plum, plum tree

(noun) any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

plum (plural plums)

The fruit and its tree.

The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour. [from 8th c.]

The 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, the cherry plum or myrobalan

Prunus salicina the Chinese plum or Japanese plum

Prunus spinosa, the sloe

Prunus ursina the bear's plum

Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums

Prunus americana, the American plum

Prunus angustifolia, the Chickasaw plum or sand plum

Prunus hortulana, the hortulan plum

Prunus nigra, the Canadian plum or black plum

Prunus rivularis, the creek plum or hog plum

Prunus subcordata, the 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/colour, the colour of some plums. [from 19th c.]

(slang, usually, in the plural) A testicle. [from 20th c.]

(pejorative, chiefly, UK) A fool, an idiot.

Synonyms

• (tree): plum tree, plumtree

• (edible fleshy fruit of Prunus mume): ume

Adjective

plum (comparative more plum, superlative most plum)

(comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.

(not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.

Etymology 2

Adjective

plum (comparative more plum, superlative most plum)

Plumb

Adverb

plum (not comparable)

Completely; utterly.

Verb

plum (third-person singular simple present plums, present participle plumming, simple past and past participle plummed)

(mining) To plumb.

Anagrams

• lump

Proper noun

Plum (plural Plums)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Plum is the 11362^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2777 individuals. Plum is most common among White (93.23%) individuals.

Anagrams

• lump

Source: Wiktionary

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Plum, n. Etym: [AS.plume, fr. L. prunum; akin to Gr. Prune a dried plum.]

1. (Bot.)

Definition: 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. are in bold format, like collocations.

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 Hæmatostaphes 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 £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it. Plum bird, Plum budder (Zoöl.), the European bullfinch.

– Plum gouger (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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