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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from the {Prunus domestica} are described; among them the {greengage}, the {Orleans}, the {purple gage}, or {Reine Claude Violette}, and the {German prune}, are some of the best known Note: Among the true plums are {Beach plum}, the {Prunus maritima}, and its crimson or purple globular drupes, {Bullace plum}. See {Bullace}. {Chickasaw plum}, the American {Prunus Chicasa}, and its round red drupes. {Orleans plum}, a dark reddish purple plum of medium size, much grown in England for sale in the markets. {Wild plum of America}, {Prunus Americana}, with red or yellow fruit, the original of the {Iowa plum} and several other varieties. Among plants called plum, but of other genera than {Prunus}, are {Australian plum}, {Cargillia arborea} and {C. australis}, of the same family with the persimmon. {Blood plum}, the West African {H[ae]matostaphes Barteri}. {Cocoa plum}, the Spanish nectarine. See under {Nectarine}. {Date plum}. See under {Date}. {Gingerbread plum}, the West African {Parinarium macrophyllum}. {Gopher plum}, the Ogeechee lime. {Gray plum}, {Guinea plum}. See under {Guinea}. {Indian plum}, several species of {Flacourtia}. 2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin. 3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of [pounds]100,000 sterling; also the person possessing it {Plum bird}, {Plum budder} (Zo["o]l.), the European bullfinch. {Plum gouger} (Zo["o]l.), a weevil, or curculio ({Coccotorus scutellaris}), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel. {Plum weevil} (Zo["o]l.), an American weevil which is very destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the pulp around the stone. Called also {turk}, and {plum curculio}. See Illust. under {Curculio}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Turk \Turk\, n. [Per. Turk; probably of Tartar origin: cf F. Turc.] 1. A member of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.; esp., one of the dominant race in Turkey. 2. A native or inhabitant of Turkey. 3. A Mohammedan; esp., one living in Turkey. It is no good reason for a man's religion that he was born and brought up in it for then a Turk would have as much reason to be a Turk as a Christian to be a Christian. --Chillingworth. 4. (Zo["o]l.) The plum weevil. See {Curculio}, and {Plum weevil}, under {Plum}. {Turk's cap}. (Bot.) a Turk's-cap lily. See under {Lily}. b A tulip. c A plant of the genus {Melocactus}; Turk's head. See {Melon cactus}, under {Melon}. {Turk's head}. a (Naut.) A knot of turbanlike form worked on a rope with a piece of small line --R. H. Dana, Jr b (Bot.) See {Turk's cap} c above. {Turk's turban} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Ranunculus}; crowfoot. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Turk n : a native or inhabitant of Turkey [syn: {Turk}]
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