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Plural of plum

regular plural

The plural of plum is plums.

Forms of plum

Singularplum /plʌm/
Pluralplums /plʌmz/
Countablecountable

Plums in a sentence

  • The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.
  • Some fruit trees, like plums, do well in damp soil conditions.2012, Terri Reid, “Starting an Orchard”, in The Everything Guide to Living Off the Grid: A Back-to-basics Manual for Independent Living…. From the entry apple
  • Both of them spoke with British aristocratic plums in their mouths.2011, James Edmiston, The Sterling Years: Small Arms and the Men, page 105. From the entry plum in one's mouth
  • Eddy became quite good at picking strawberries, raspberries, black- and redcurrants, loganberries, apples, pears, plums, and vegetables.2010, John Welshman, Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain, unnumbered page. From the entry red currant
  • Hand fruits include apples, oranges, pears, peaches, plums, nectarines, or small bananas.2008, Heather Bauer, The Wall Street Diet, Hachette Books, →ISBN. From the entry hand fruit

Meaning of plum

  1. noun An edible, fleshy stone fruit of species Prunus domestica (European plum) and Prunus americana American plum, often of a dark red or purple colour.
  2. noun A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
  3. noun Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan).

Full definition of plum

Questions about the plural of plum

What is the plural of plum?
The plural of plum is plums.
Is plum countable?
Plum is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plum (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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