5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plum \Plum\, n.
Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or
choice thing of its kind as among appointments, positions,
parts of a book, etc
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plum \Plum\, n. [AS. pl[=u]me, fr L. prunum; akin to Gr ?, ?.
Cf {Prune} a dried plum.]
1. (Bot.) The edible drupaceous fruit of the {Prunus
domestica}, and of several other species of {Prunus};
also the tree itself usually called {plum tree}.
The bullace, the damson, and the numerous varieties
of plum, of our gardens, although growing into
thornless trees, are believed to be varieties of the
blackthorn, produced by long cultivation. --G.
Bentham.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
plum
n 1: any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned
fruit with a single hard stone [syn: {plum tree}]
2: any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or
oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit
adv 1: (informal) exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"
[syn: {plumb}]
2: (slang) completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the
appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn: {clean},
{plumb}]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Plum, PA (borough, FIPS 61536)
Location: 40.50239 N, 79.75395 W
Population (1990): 25609 (9289 housing units)
Area: 74.2 sq km (land), 1.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 15239
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
PLUM
A {compiler} for a substantial subset of {PL/I} for the
{Univac 1100}, from the {University of Maryland}.
["PL/I Programming with PLUM", M.V. Zelkowitz Paladin House,
1978].
(1995-02-23)
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