From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plum \Plum\, noun [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.
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 {Cargillia 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.
4. Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.; as, the mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
5. A color resembling that of a plum; a slightly grayish deep purple, varying somewhat in its red or blue tint. [PJC]
{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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
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
adverb
1: exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle" [syn: {plumb}]
2: completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn: {clean}, {plumb}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "plum": Mars violet, Tyrian purple, accrued dividends, accumulated dividends, ambition, amethyst, bawbee, boast, bonus, carrot, cash dividend, catch, clematis, coup, cream, crown, cumulative dividend, dahlia, damson, dearest wish, desideration, desideratum, desire, diamond, dividend, dollar, extra dividend, farthing, favors of office, find, fiver, florin, forbidden fruit, fourpence, fourpenny, fuchsia, gem, glimmering goal, godsend, golden vision, good thing, grape, groat, guerdon, guinea, half crown, half dollar, halfpenny, heliotrope, hope, hyacinth, imperial purple, interest, interim dividend, jewel, lavender, lilac, lodestone, mag, magenta, magnet, mallow, mauve, meed, meg, melon, mite, monkey, monsignor, mulberry, new pence, np, optional dividend, orchid, p, pansy, pansy violet, patronage, pearl, pence, penny, phony dividend, political patronage, pontiff purple, pony, pork, pork barrel, pound, premium, pride, pride and joy, prize, quid, regal purple, regular dividend, royal purple, shilling, sixpence, solferino, special dividend, stock dividend, temptation, tenner, threepence, threepenny bit, thrippence, treasure, trophy, trouvaille, tuppence, twopence, violet, windfall, wine purple, winner, wish
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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)
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 U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Plum, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania Population (2000): 26940 Housing Units (2000): 10624 Land area (2000): 28.628230 sq. miles (74.146772 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.385414 sq. miles (0.998217 sq. km) Total area (2000): 29.013644 sq. miles (75.144989 sq. km) FIPS code: 61536 Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42 Location: 40.494110 N, 79.754477 W ZIP Codes (1990): 15239 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Plum, PA Plum
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