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Definition of Plum
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Plum
Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc. The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it. Related Definitions:
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Plum Quotations
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. Robert Fortune Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. Francis Marion Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed. Claire Danes What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? Logan P. Smith |
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Plum Translations
plum in Danish is blomme plum in Dutch is pruim plum in French is prune plum in German is Zwetschge, Pflaume, Pflaume plum in Italian is prugna plum in Norwegian is plomme plum in Portuguese is ameixa plum in Spanish is ciruela plum in Swedish is plommon |
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