0 a small, round fruit with a thin, smooth, red, purple, or yellow skin, sweet, soft flesh, and a single large, hard seed:
1 very good and worth having:
2 having a dark reddish-purple colour:
a plum-coloured dress
3 a small, round fruit with a smooth, usually red-purple skin, sweet flesh, and a single large seed
4 something that is very good and worth having
purple plums
Peaches, plums, dates, avocados, and olives all contain stones.
She bit into a plum.
plum crumble
A number of interests conducted experiments on a commercial scale in the drying of plums.
In the case of cherries and plums, the prices of the foreign fruit were higher.
Then the alternatives were quoted—melons, cherries, plums and pears.
