English Explanatory Dictionary

plum

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The fruit and its tree.
  2. An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica and Prunus americana (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
  3. A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
  4. The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
  5. Prunus sect. Prunus
  6. Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
  7. Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
  8. Prunus spinosa (sloe)
  9. Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
  10. Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
  11. Prunus americana (American plum)
  12. Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
adj
  1. Of a dark bluish-red colour.
  2. Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
adj
  1. Plumb.
adv
  1. Completely; utterly.
verb
  1. To plumb.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A place name:
  3. A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, named after Plum Creek (Allegheny River tributary).
  4. A township in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
  5. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Texas, United States.
  6. A village in Le Mont-Dore commune, New Caledonia.

Pronunciation

plŭm /plʌm/ /plʊm/ en-us-plum.ogg

Word forms

plum plums plumb more plum most plum plumming plummed

Etymology

Etymology tree Anatolianbor. Ancient Greek προῦμνον (proûmnon)bor. Latin prūnum Vulgar Latin *prūmabor. Proto-West Germanic *plūmā Old English plūme Middle English plomme English plum From Middle English plomme, ploume, from Old English plūme, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, borrowed from Latin prūnum. Doublet of prune.

Synonyms

plum tree plumtree ume plum-colored

Related words

briolette damson greengage mirabelle myrobalan prune sapote slivovitz sloe umeboshi umesu

Derived words

Allegheny plum American black plum American plum American wild plum apple-plum aprium Assyrian plum August plum Australian plum bag plum batoko plum beach plum beach-plum big-tree plum black plum of Illawarra black plum bladder plum blood plum Brazil plum Brazilian plum bullace plum burdekin plum California plum Canada plum carissa plum cassowary plum Cerbera floribunda Cherokee plum cherry plum Chickasaw plum Chinese plum cocoa plum coco plum cocoplum common plum damascene plum damask plum damson plum Darling plum date plum date-plum Davidson plum Davidson's plum doveplum dried plum East Indian plum European plum false plum anemone flatwoods plum Florida sand plum fox plum gingerbread plum golden plum gopher plum governor's plum governor plum gray plum grey plum greengage plum green plum ground plum

Translations

Afrikaans: pruim Ainu: モマニ Armenian: սալորենի Aromanian: damaschin Aromanian: dhamaskin Asturian: cirolal Asturian: ciroleru Asturian: nisal Basque: aranondo Bulgarian: слива Catalan: pruner Catalan: prunera Cheyenne: ma'xemenó'e Chinese Mandarin: 李 Czech: švestka Czech: slíva Danish: blomme Danish: blommetræ Dutch: pruimenboom Dutch: pruim Estonian: ploomipuu Finnish: luumupuu French: prunier Friulian: emolâr Friulian: sespâr Friulian: cespâr Friulian: brugnulâr Galician: ameixeira Galician: fatoeiro Galician: abruñeiro Galician: gruñeiro Galician: agruñeiro Galician: cerolleiro German: Pflaumenbaum Greek: δαμασκηνιά Ancient Greek: προύμνη Hungarian: szilvafa Icelandic: plómutré Ido: pruniero Ingrian: sliivipuu Irish: crann plumaí Italian: prugno Italian: susino Japanese: セイヨウスモモ Kaitag: гъи́мгъе Korean: 자두나무 Lao: ໝາກພຼຳ Latin: prūnus Latvian: plūme Livonian: plūmpū Livonian: plūmõpū Luxembourgish: Prommebam Luxembourgish: Praumebam Macedonian: слива Manx: billey plumbis Māori: paramu Middle English: plomme Middle English: plumtre Norman: preunyi Catalan: pruna Danish: blommefarvet Dutch: donkerrood Dutch: donkerrode Finnish: luumunpunainen French: prune Ido: prunea Irish: plumchorcra Japanese: 暗紫色の Romanian: prună Swahili: zambarau Vietnamese: màu mận
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