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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)