Other forms: plums
A plum is a soft purple fruit with a stone inside. Ripe plums, plum jam, a plum tree.
Dried plums are prunes, and both words come from the same Latin original by different roads. A plum job means a good one, from an old sense of plum as something choice. Note that the fruit in a Christmas pudding is raisins, not plums, from an older use of the word.
1nounplumA soft purple stone fruit.
“She picked a ripe plum from the tree and bit into its sweet purple flesh.”
plum is a fruit.
Old English plume comes from Latin prunum. Prune is the same word arriving by a different road.
Middle English
plomme
English, today
plum
From Middle English plomme. From Middle English plomme, ploume, from Old English plūme, from Proto-West Germanic plūmā, borrowed from Latin prūnum. a doublet of prune.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA