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Meanings of plum in English

Russian
слива
Portuguese
ameixa
Spanish
ciruela
Catalan
pruna
Wikidata

Food ingredient.

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          слива
          Wikidata

          Mahjong tile.

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                Spanish
                a plomo

                Completely; used as intensifiers.

                      a plomo
                      Portuguese
                      ameixeira
                      Catalan
                      prunera

                      Any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone.

                            ameixeira
                            Usage of plum in English
                            1
                            You know, sometimes I plum forget there's twenty years' difference between us.
                            Pinball, 1973
                            2
                            Madam, - On offer in Ireland this summer are 166 plum jobs.
                            The Irish Times
                            3
                            She claims responsibility for the plum and teal booms of recent seasons.
                            The new yorker
                            4
                            Soon his Aunt came in with the plum cake in her hand.
                            The Book of One Syllable
                            5
                            The market stocks 7 kinds of soy sauce, plum, & shrimp sauce.
                            The new yorker
                            6
                            The plum rewards program offers points on all products in its stores.
                            Reuters
                            7
                            That would have been a plum job a decade or so ago.
                            The Irish Times
                            8
                            You ought to wait for the plum blossom and come by bus.
                            How the soldier repairs the gramophone
                            9
                            They were made in Rhiminee, where a particular small, tart plum grew.
                            The White Road
                            10
                            You only want to use big plum tomatoes: the long-looking, oval-shaped ones.
                            Skinny italian: eat it and enjoy it
                            11
                            I plum forgot that man I was to meet in the Tivoli.
                            Smoke Bellew
                            12
                            The bamboo and the plum tree are also allied to this class.
                            Chinese Painters: A Critical Study
                            13
                            The Surprise plum was the only one I got any good from.
                            Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 / Embracing the Tra...
                            14
                            Now the greatest plum in the kingdom had fallen beyond his reach.
                            Hidden Warrior
                            15
                            The first thing we saw was a plum tree with pink blossoms.
                            Petals from the sky
                            16
                            Under the plum tree lay the last fully ripened dark gold plums.
                            Cornelli
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                            Plum through the time
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