plum – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: fruit tree,
drupe,
stone fruit,
edible fruit,
berth,
billet,
office,
place,
position,
post,
situation,
spot
plum
n.
type of fruit; good position, good job (Slang)
Plum
A
plum is a fruit of the subgenus
Prunus of the
genus Prunus. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera (
peaches,
cherries,
bird cherries, etc.) in the
shoots having a terminal
bud and solitary side buds (not clustered), the
flowers in groups of one to five together on short
stems, and the
fruit having a groove running down one side and a smooth
stone (or
pit).
Charles Plumier
Charles Plumier (20 April 1646 – 20 November 1704) was a
French botanist, after whom the Frangipani genus
Plumeria is named. Plumier is considered one of the most important of the botanical explorers of his time. He made three botanizing expeditions to the
West Indies, which resulted in a massive work
Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera (1703–04) and was appointed botanist to king
Louis XIV of France.
plum
Noun
1. any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone
(synonym) plum tree
(hypernym) fruit tree
(hyponym) wild plum, wild plum tree
(member-holonym) Prunus, genus Prunus
2. any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit
(hypernym) edible fruit
(hyponym) damson, damson plum
(part-holonym) plum tree
Adverb
1. exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"
(synonym) plumb
(classification) colloquialism
2. completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"
(synonym) clean, plumb
(classification) cant, jargon, slang, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular
plum
n.
švestka
plum
Rzecz.
śliwka
