English noun: plum |
1. | plum (plant) any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone |
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| Synonyms | plum tree |
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| Broader (hypernym) | fruit tree |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | big-tree plum, bullace, Canada plum, cherry plum, common plum, Japanese plum, myrobalan, myrobalan plum, Pacific plum, Prunus cerasifera, Prunus domestica, Prunus insititia, Prunus mexicana, Prunus nigra, Prunus salicina, Prunus subcordata, Sierra plum, wild plum, wild plum tree |
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| Part holonym | plum |
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| Member meronym | genus Prunus, Prunus |
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2. | plum (food) any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit |
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| Broader (hypernym) | drupe, edible fruit, stone fruit |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | beach plum, damson, damson plum, greengage, greengage plum, sloe, Victoria plum |
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| Part meronym | plum, plum tree |
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3. | plum (act) a highly desirable position or assignment |
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| Samples | A political plum.
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| Broader (hypernym) | berth, billet, office, place, position, post, situation, spot |
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