Plum

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.

II. Plum ·noun A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.

III. Plum ·noun The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.

IV. Plum ·add. ·noun Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, ·etc.

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plum
n. sometimes called Acacia Plum,a timber tree, Eucryphia moorei, F. v. M., N.O. Saxifrageae; called...

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plum
very ; plum pleasant, very pleasant. Kent. ...

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Natal plum
·- The drupaceous fruit of two South African shrubs of the genus Arduina (A. bispinosa and A. grandi...

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native plum
n. See plum, wild. ...

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plum, black
n. the fruit of the tree Cargillia australis, R. Br., N.O. Ebenaceae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful N...

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sweet plum
See plum, burdekin ...

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plum, burdekin
or Sweet Plum n. a timber tree, Spondias pleiogyna, F. v. M., N.O. Anacardiaceae. Wood like Americ...

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plum, grey
n. 1) A timber-tree.One of the names for Cargillia pentamera, F. v. M., N.O. Ebenaceae. Wood used f...

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wild plum
See plum, native ...

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plum, native
or Wild Plum n. another name for the Brush-Apple. See Apple.The Native Plum, peculiar to Tasmania,...

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plum, Queensland
n. i.q. sweet plum (q.v. infra). ...

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plum, sour
n. another name for Emu-Apple (q.v.). ...

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plum, sweet
n. a wild fruit, Oweniavenosa, F. v. M., N.O. Meliaceae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants...

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plum, white
n. local name for Acacia (q.v.). ...

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plum, wild
n. i.q. Native Plum (q.v.). ...

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plum-tree
n. the tree, Buchananiamangoides, F. v. M., N.O. Anacardiaceae. ...

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Queensland plum
n. See plum, sweet. ...

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sour-plum
n. the Emu-apple.See apple. ...

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Port-Arthur Plum
See plum, native. ...

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