plum
The fruit and its tree.
Other meanings
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.
A kind of
- fruit tree
Kinds of plum
- wild plum
- common plum
- big-tree plum
- cherry plum
Word history
From Old English "plūme".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “plum” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.