Definitions

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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plum.
  • noun Plural form of plum.

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Examples

  • Daddy grew rubber trees, papaya (which we called pawpaw), mangoes (which we called plums), guavas, and ptanga, a greenish orange fruit that showered your mouth and cheeks with its tart-sweet juice.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • Daddy grew rubber trees, papaya (which we called pawpaw), mangoes (which we called plums), guavas, and ptanga, a greenish orange fruit that showered your mouth and cheeks with its tart-sweet juice.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • Daddy grew rubber trees, papaya (which we called pawpaw), mangoes (which we called plums), guavas, and ptanga, a greenish orange fruit that showered your mouth and cheeks with its tart-sweet juice.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • Daddy grew rubber trees, papaya (which we called pawpaw), mangoes (which we called plums), guavas, and ptanga, a greenish orange fruit that showered your mouth and cheeks with its tart-sweet juice.

    The House at Sugar Beach Helene Cooper 2009

  • But I am fairly sure in my own mind that a diet of plums is bad for you, and that any rational reading system needs to include a considerable amount of pap or roughagecall it what you will.

    An essay by Peter Dickinson entitled 'A Defense of Rubbish' 2010

  • He’d brought the orders home to show her along with a couple of plums from the farmer’s market to celebrate the good news.

    CROSSING BRIDGES • by Sarah Black 2008

  • The flavor of the plums was amazing, and it seemed like there was just the right amount of sugar in the filling to balance all the flavors together.

    Plum Pie | Baking Bites 2009

  • CHOCOLATE elderflower, umeboshi, green tea: a long strand of chocolate somewhere in consistency between pulled taffy and pudding, with umeboshi dried Japanese apricots often called plums ice cream, dots of elderflower and green tea gels, and bits of crunchy dried chocolate and tea.

    Augieland: 2006

  • CHOCOLATE elderflower, umeboshi, green tea: a long strand of chocolate somewhere in consistency between pulled taffy and pudding, with umeboshi dried Japanese apricots often called plums ice cream, dots of elderflower and green tea gels, and bits of crunchy dried chocolate and tea.

    the best 2006

  • CHOCOLATE elderflower, umeboshi, green tea: a long strand of chocolate somewhere in consistency between pulled taffy and pudding, with umeboshi dried Japanese apricots often called plums ice cream, dots of elderflower and green tea gels, and bits of crunchy dried chocolate and tea.

    Alinea: 994 apexillian stars 2006

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