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Plum

noun

Any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone. Synonym: plum tree.

Any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit.

A highly desirable position or assignment.

adverb

Exactly. Synonym: plumb.

Completely; used as intensifiers. Synonyms: clean, plumb. "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"

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... and produced luxuriant crops, there were others, not less instinct with the vital principles, of which the germination has been slow. The nurseryman expects, in sowing beds of the stone-fruit-bearing trees, such as the plum or the hawthorn, to see the plants spring up very irregularly. One seed bursts the enveloping case, and gets up in three weeks; another barely achieves the same work in three years. And it has been thus with the harder-coated germens of the Wealth of Nations. It is now ...

— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller

... plum negaverit, A diis plum feret: nil cupientium Nudus castra peto . . . . Multa ...

— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... 'ud be after her like wasps round a plum-tree if she'd give 'em 'alf a chance. But you put a ...

— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy

... her kimono for Gyp to inspect her dress—a girdled cream-coloured shift, which made her ivory arms and neck seem more than ever dazzling; and her mouth opened, as if for a sugar-plum of praise. Then, lowering her ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... woody plants are rapidly encroaching into the grasslands. Young Osage orange (Maclura pomifera), American elm, and hackberry are common trees encroaching on the grasslands. The edge vegetation between woods and fields (Pls. 45 and 47) includes smooth sumac (Rhus glabra), coralberry and wild plum (Prunus americana). The lowland edges are characterized by blackberry (Rubus argutus), greenbriar and elderberry (Sambucus canadensis). Plates 45, 46 and 47 all show local habitat in situations where traps were actually ...

— Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas • Donald W. Janes

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