plum
/plʌm/ noun B2- An edible, fleshy stone fruit of species Prunus domestica (European plum) and Prunus americana American plum, often of a dark red or purple colour.
- A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
- Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan).
- Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum).
- Prunus spinosa (sloe).
- Prunus ursina (bear's plum).
- Prunus americana (American plum).
- Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum).
Plural plums
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Our little party of travelers awakened the next morning refreshed and full of hope, and Dorothy breakfasted like a princess off peaches and plums from the trees beside the river.
It was a pretty road, running along between snug farmsteads, with now and again a bit of balsamy fir wood to drive through or a hollow where wild plums hung out their filmy bloom.
The child put out her hand and broke off a branch of wild plum that brushed against the side of the buggy.
Here and there a wild plum leaned out from the bank like a white-clad girl tiptoeing to her own reflection.
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