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plum
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noun (n)
- any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone(noun.plant)source: wordnet30
- any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit(noun.food)source: wordnet30
- a highly desirable position or assignment(noun.act)Example:
A political plum.
source: wordnet30 - The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.(noun)source: webster1913
- Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.(noun)source: webster1913