plum
noun
the drupaceous fruit of any of several trees belonging to the genus Prunus, of the rose family, having an oblong stone.
plumlike
-
a word derived from
plum.
Example Sentences
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It’s one of several high points on the appetizer menu, including a pink-snapper ceviche in a tart coconut broth that gets its rosy color, its tartness and its hard-to-place plumlike flavor from kokum.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2021
You have not been through the experience of starting to ask the girl you love to marry you and then suddenly finding yourself talking about the plumlike external gills of the newly-born newt.
From Right Ho, Jeeves by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
