1. Any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
   "She made a delicious plum tart for dessert"
    
2. Any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
   "The plum tree in our backyard yielded a bumper crop this year";
   - plum tree
    
3. A highly desirable position or assignment
   "a political plum"
    
4. A dark bluish-red colour
   "She chose a rich plum colour for her bridesmaid dresses"

1. Exactly
   "fell plum in the middle of the puddle";
   - plumb
    
2. Completely; used as an intensifier
   "I'm plum tuckered out";
   - clean [informal], plumb

Sounds like: pleural, p, plum

Derived forms: plums

Type of: berth, drupe, edible fruit, fruit tree, office, place, position, post, purplish red, purplish-red, situation, stone fruit

Part of: genus Prunus, Prunus

Encyclopedia: Plum, Pennsylvania