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Noun: plum  plúm
  1. Any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
    - plum tree
     
  2. Any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
     
  3. A highly desirable position or assignment
    "a political plum"
     
  4. A dark bluish-red colour
Adverb: plum  plúm
  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