Definition of Plumlike

1. Adjective. Resembling a plum fruit.

Similar to: Rounded

Definition of Plumlike

1. Adjective. Resembling a plum or some aspect of one. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plumlike

1. resembling a plum [adj] - See also: plum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plumlike

plumeries
plumery
plumes
plumicorn
plumicorns
plumier
plumiest
plumigerous
plumiliform
pluming
plumiped
plumipeds
plumist
plumists
plumless
plumlike (current term)
plummed
plummer
plummer's disease
plummer-vinson syndrome
plummest
plummet
plummeted
plummeting
plummets
plummetted
plummetting
plummier
plummiest
plummily

Literary usage of Plumlike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. How Plants are Trained to Work for Man by Luther Burbank (1921)
"The apricot characters are prominent in the tree; but the fruit is, on the whole, distinctly plumlike in general appearance. ..."

2. Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive by United States Congress. Senate (1861)
"Its smaller, and also plumlike fruits, are similarly colored, but are much closer packed—the raceme thus forming almost a pendulous spike. ..."

3. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"The fruit is plumlike, oblate-spheroidal, with the withered, thick calyx at the base, i-ij inches broad, at first green, finally ocher orange, ..."

4. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"As in the Cycads, the seed becomes plumlike, a testa with fleshy outer and stony inner layers being organized (Fig. 36). Even without pollination the seed ..."

5. How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants when Not in Flower by Means of by Maude Gridley Peterson (1914)
"... xlii (c) Calyx persistent at base of fruit and sometimes inclosing it. plumlike fruit containing 4 to 8 hard seeds. ..."

6. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"In another member of this order—Vitex grandifolia (a low tree)—the fruits are plumlike, with a sweetish pulp. They are eaten by the natives, ..."

7. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1915)
"... the discovery of motile male gametes, is one and a half meters in diameter, and at the time of our visit was bearing a good crop of the plumlike fruit. ..."

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