- pronunciation:
- pluhm
- features:
- Homophone Note, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
A plum is a sweet, soft fruit with red, purple, green, or yellow skin. Plums grow on trees and have a small seed inside. Plums are smaller than apples, and they are softer and taste a little like peaches.
My mother likes to eat fresh plums, but sometimes she'll get dried plums. She says that dried plums are usually called "prunes."
|
The words
plum and
plumb sound alike but have different meanings. There is a silent 'B' at the end of
plumb.