Usually means: Sweet, juicy fruit with pit.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Plum, plum: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. plum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plum, plum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. plum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. plum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Plum, plum: Wordnik
  7. plum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Plum: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Plum, plum: Wiktionary
  10. plum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. plum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. plum: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Plum, plum: Dictionary.com
  14. plum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. plum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Plum (album), Plum (color), Plum (disambiguation), Plum, The Plum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Plum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. plum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. plum: Rhymezone
  20. Plum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. plum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Plum: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. plum: Free Dictionary
  24. plum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Plum, plum: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. plum: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. plum-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLUM: Accounting Glossary
  2. plum: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLUM: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. plum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. plum: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Plum: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. PLUM: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. plum: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Plum: HYPP Zoology
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plum, plum, plum, plum: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Plum, plum: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See pluming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The fruit and its tree.
noun:  An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
noun:  A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
noun:  The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species resembling the plum, or the tree from which they grow.
noun:  Prunus sect. Prunus
noun:  Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
noun:  Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
noun:  Prunus spinosa (sloe)
noun:  Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
noun:  Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums
noun:  Prunus americana (American plum)
noun:  Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
noun:  Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
noun:  Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
noun:  Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
noun:  Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
noun:  Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
noun:  Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
noun:  (now rare) A dried grape or raisin, as used in a pudding or cake.
noun:  Extended senses.
noun:  (now rare, archaic) One hundred thousand pounds; (generally) a fortune.
noun:  A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
noun:  A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
noun:  (vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
noun:  (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
adjective:  (comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
adjective:  (not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
adjective:  Plumb
adverb:  Completely; utterly.
verb:  (mining) To plumb.
noun:  A surname.

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