A Quick and Simple Dictionary

plum

1. Noun.  The edible, fleshy stone fruit of ''Prunus domestica'', often of a dark red or purple colour.
2. Noun.  The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, ''Prunus domestica''.
3. Noun.  A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
4. Noun.  A desirable thing.
5. Noun.  A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.
6. Noun.  (pejorative) A fool, idiot.
7. Noun.  (slang, usually in plural) A testicle.
8. Noun.  The edible, fleshy stone of ''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.
9. Noun.  The tree which bears this fruit, ''Prunus mume''. See ''plum blossom''.
10. Adjective.  (comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
11. Adjective.  (not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
12. Adjective.  Plumb.
13. Adverb.  Completely; utterly.
14. Verb.  (mining) To plumb.