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# plum

«plum» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small round soft fruit with a smooth purple, red or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (plum, plums); adjective (plum — a dark red-purple colour)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A plum is a small round soft fruit with a smooth purple, red or yellow skin and a stone inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plum/#m1)

2) Plum is a dark red-purple colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plum/#m2)

3) A plum job is a very good one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plum/#m3)

4) A plum tree is a tree that grows plums. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plum/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a fruit on the table; a counted thing («There are 15 plums in a bowl»); in everyday life plum jam, plum pie; in science the stone in a plum is its seed; dried plums are called prunes

### examples

- I add one plum on the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plum/#x1)
- I eat three plums from the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plum/#x2)
- There are 15 plums in a bowl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plum/#x3)
- This plum is sweet and juicy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plum/#x4)
- Be careful: a plum has a hard stone inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plum/#x5)
- Grandma makes plum jam in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plum/#x6)
- A dried plum is called a prune. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plum/#x7)
- She wore a plum-coloured scarf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plum/#x8)
- Hit's a blessin' de w'ite sow don't shake de plum-tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plum/#x9)

### note

A fruit; counts in «how many fruits». No operation clue. Do not mix «plum» (fruit) with «plumb» (straight up and down, or a weight on a string): they sound the same. Do not swallow the stone.

### In the corpora

- [Butterflies and flies taste with their feet, so a red admiral landing on a rotting plum is tasting it as it lands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «plum» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plum/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.