plum

1. Any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone (synset 112658979)
   is a type of: fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit
   subtypes:

   • wild plum, wild plum tree - an uncultivated plum tree or shrub
   • common plum, prunus domestica - any of various widely distributed plums grown in the cooler temperate areas
   • bullace, prunus insititia - small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters
   • big-tree plum, prunus mexicana - small tree of southwestern United States having purplish-red fruit sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its large leaves
   • canada plum, prunus nigra - small tree native to northeastern North America having oblong orange-red 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
   • pacific plum, prunus subcordata, sierra plum - shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States bearing small red insipid fruit
   belongs to: genus prunus, prunus - a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions
   has: plum - any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
   same as: plum tree
2. Any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit (synset 107767427)
   is a type of:

   • edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
   • drupe, stone fruit - fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
   subtypes:

   • 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
   • sloe - small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush
   • victoria plum - a large red plum served as dessert
   is a part of: plum, plum tree - any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
3. A highly desirable position or assignment (synset 100597196)
   "a political plum"
   is a type of: berth, billet, office, place, position, post, situation, spot - a job in an organization

1. Exactly (synset 400010003)
   "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"
   domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
   same as: plumb
2. Completely;
   Used as intensifiers (synset 400009835)
   "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"
   domain usage: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
   same as: clean, plumb

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