plum
- noun
- adjective
- B2
- Top 10000
A soft, round or egg-shaped fruit with smooth skin, a sweet juicy inside and one large flat seed.
These plums are so ripe that juice runs down my fingers.
We picked a whole basket of plums from the tree yesterday.
She baked a plum cake and served it warm with cream.
Common collocations: ripe plum · dried plum · plum tree · plum jam · stewed plums
Part of: Fruit, The garden