plum

English Thesaurus

1. a highly desirable position or assignment (noun.act)

hypernym	:	berth, billet, office, place, position, post, situation, spot,
definition	:	a job in an organization (noun.act)

2. any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit (noun.food)

hypernym	:	edible fruit,
definition	:	edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh (noun.food)

hypernym	:	drupe, stone fruit,
definition	:	fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	damson, damson plum,
definition	:	dark purple plum of the damson tree (noun.food)

hyponym	:	greengage, greengage plum,
definition	:	sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum (noun.food)

hyponym	:	beach plum,
definition	:	small dark purple fruit used especially in jams and pies (noun.food)

hyponym	:	sloe,
definition	:	small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush (noun.food)

hyponym	:	victoria plum,
definition	:	a large red plum served as dessert (noun.food)

part meronym	:	plum, plum tree,
definition	:	any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone (noun.plant)

3. any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	fruit tree,
definition	:	tree bearing edible fruit (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	wild plum, wild plum tree,
definition	:	an uncultivated plum tree or shrub (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	common plum, prunus domestica,
definition	:	any of various widely distributed plums grown in the cooler temperate areas (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	bullace, prunus insititia,
definition	:	small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	big-tree plum, prunus mexicana,
definition	:	small tree of southwestern United States having purplish-red fruit sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its large leaves (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	canada plum, prunus nigra,
definition	:	small tree native to northeastern North America having oblong orange-red fruit (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	cherry plum, myrobalan, myrobalan plum, prunus cerasifera,
definition	:	small Asiatic tree bearing edible red or yellow fruit (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	japanese plum, prunus salicina,
definition	:	small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	pacific plum, prunus subcordata, sierra plum,
definition	:	shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States bearing small red insipid fruit (noun.plant)

part holonym	:	plum,
definition	:	any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit (noun.food)

member meronym	:	genus prunus, prunus,
definition	:	a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions (noun.plant)

4. completely; used as intensifiers (adv.all)

domain usage	:	argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular,
definition	:	a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) (noun.communication)

5. exactly (adv.all)

domain usage	:	colloquialism,
definition	:	a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech (noun.communication)