| plum | a highly desirable position or assignment, a political plum |
white-throated sparrow
whitethroat
Zonotrichia albicollis | common North American finch with a white patch on the throat and black-and-white striped crown |
yellow-throated marten
Charronia flavigula | large yellow and black marten of southern China and Burma |
plum pudding
Christmas pudding | a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake |
duff
plum duff | a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron |
| plum tomato | a kind of cherry tomato that is frequently used in cooking rather than eaten raw |
carissa plum
natal plum | edible scarlet plumlike fruit of a South African plant |
| plum | any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit |
damson
damson plum | dark purple plum of the damson tree |
greengage
greengage plum | sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum |
| beach plum | small dark purple fruit used especially in jams and pies |
| Victoria plum | a large red plum served as dessert |
cocoa plum
coco plum
icaco | plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves, tropical American |
loquat
Japanese plum | yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh, used for jellies |
sapodilla
sapodilla plum
sapota | tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp |
sapote
mammee marmalade plum | brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet |
| hog plum yellow mombin | yellow oval tropical fruit |
| hog plum wild plum | fruit of the wild plum of southern United States |
| plum sauce | for Chinese dishes: plum preserves and chutney |
Cephalotaxaceae
family Cephalotaxaceae
plum-yew family | a family of Cephalotaxaceae |
| plum-yew | any of several evergreen trees and shrubs of eastern Asia resembling yew and having large seeds enclosed in a fleshy envelope, sometimes cultivated as ornamentals |
plum-fruited yew
Prumnopitys andina
Prumnopitys elegans | South American evergreen tree or shrub |
hedge thorn
natal plum Carissa bispinosa | South African shrub having forked spines and plumlike fruit, frequently used as hedging |
natal plum
amatungulu
Carissa macrocarpa
Carissa grandiflora | very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves |
creeping snowberry
moxie plum
maidenhair berry
Gaultheria hispidula | slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds |
governor's plum
governor plum
Madagascar plum
ramontchi
batoko palm
Flacourtia indica | small shrubby tree of Madagascar cultivated in tropical regions as a hedge plant and for its deep red acid fruits resembling small plums |
coco plum
coco plum tree
cocoa plum
icaco
Chrysobalanus icaco | small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit |
loquat
loquat tree
Japanese medlar
Japanese plum Eriobotrya japonica | evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone, native to China and Japan |
plum
plum tree | any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone |
wild plum
wild plum tree | an uncultivated plum tree or shrub |
Allegheny plum
Alleghany plum
sloe Prunus alleghaniensis | wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh |
American red plum
August plum
goose plum
Prunus americana | wild plum trees of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh |
chickasaw plum
hog plum hog plum bush
Prunus angustifolia | small native American shrubby tree bearing small edible yellow to reddish fruit |
beach plum
beach plum bush
Prunus maritima | seacoast shrub of northeastern North America having showy white blossoms and edible purple fruit |
common plum
Prunus domestica | any of various widely distributed plums grown in the cooler temperate areas |
damson plum
damson plum tree
Prunus domestica insititia | plum tree long cultivated for its edible fruit |
big-tree plum
Prunus mexicana | small tree of southwestern United States having purplished fruit sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its large leaves |
Canada plum
Prunus nigra | small tree native to northeastern North America having oblong orangeed fruit |
cherry plum
myrobalan
myrobalan plum
Prunus cerasifera | small Asiatic tree bearing edible red or yellow fruit |
| Japanese plum Prunus salicina | small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor |
Sierra plum
Pacific plum
Prunus subcordata | shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States bearing small red insipid fruit |
hog plum yellow mombin
yellow mombin tree
Spondias mombin | tropical American tree having edible yellow fruit |
date plum
Diospyros lotus | an Asiatic persimmon tree cultivated for its small yellow or purplish-black edible fruit much valued by Afghan tribes |
satinleaf
satin leaf
caimitillo
damson plum Chrysophyllum oliviforme | tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit |
| plum tomato | an Italian variety of cherry tomato that is shaped like a plum |
| throated | having a throat as specified, deep-throated, white-throated |
| clean plumb plum ,u n | completely, used as intensifiers, clean forgot the appointment, I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out |
| plumb plum ,un | exactly, fell plumb in the middle of the puddle |