plum

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Related topics: Food, dish, Plants, Colours

plum1 /plʌm/ noun → plumb

[countableC]DFFHBP a small round juicy fruit which is dark red, purple, or yellow and has a single hard seed, or the tree that produces this fruit 李子；梅子；李树

juicy ripe plums

多汁的成熟李子

→4 See picture of 见图 FRUIT 1 →5 see picture at 见图 fruit1

2. [uncountableU]CC a dark purple-red colour 深紫红色

3 [countableC] informal something very good that other people wish they had, such as a good job or a part in a play 令人垂涎的事物〔如称心如意的工作、戏剧角色等〕

The first job I had was a real plum.

我的第一份工作非常称心。

→ plum pudding

Examples from the Corpus

plum• The contract is a plum for Browning and Co.• Rosy pinks, rich coppers and deep plums are the big fashion news.• Either plums or blackberries, not both.• If plums are difficult to find or not.• All varieties of plum, apple, and pear trees, grew in unison.• She walked across the scuffed floors toward the cupboard and pulled out several packages of tamarind candy and salted plums.• An image that captures the dichotomy of possibilities in getting older is the plum versus the prune.• He said that wild plums were delicious.

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