greengage
n . 青酶
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greengage n 1 :
sweet green or greenish -
yellow variety of plum [
synonym :
{
greengage }, {
greengage plum }]
Greengage \
Green "
gage `\,
n . (
Bot .)
A kind of plum of medium size ,
roundish shape ,
greenish flesh ,
and delicious flavor .
It is called in France {
Reine Claude },
after the queen of Francis I .
See {
Gage }.
[
1913 Webster ]
Plum \
Plum \,
n . [
AS .
pl [=
u ]
me ,
fr .
L .
prunum ;
akin to Gr . ?, ?.
Cf . {
Prune }
a dried plum .]
[
1913 Webster ]
1 . (
Bot .)
The edible drupaceous fruit of the {
Prunus domestica },
and of several other species of {
Prunus };
also ,
the tree itself ,
usually called {
plum tree }.
[
1913 Webster ]
The bullace ,
the damson ,
and the numerous varieties of plum ,
of our gardens ,
although growing into thornless trees ,
are believed to be varieties of the blackthorn ,
produced by long cultivation . --
G .
Bentham .
[
1913 Webster ]
Note :
Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from the {
Prunus domestica }
are described ;
among them the {
greengage },
the {
Orleans },
the {
purple gage },
or {
Reine Claude Violette },
and the {
German prune },
are some of the best known .
[
1913 Webster ]
Note :
Among the true plums are ;
{
Beach plum },
the {
Prunus maritima },
and its crimson or purple globular drupes ,
{
Bullace plum }.
See {
Bullace }.
{
Chickasaw plum },
the American {
Prunus Chicasa },
and its round red drupes .
{
Orleans plum },
a dark reddish purple plum of medium size ,
much grown in England for sale in the markets .
{
Wild plum of America }, {
Prunus Americana },
with red or yellow fruit ,
the original of the {
Iowa plum }
and several other varieties .
[
1913 Webster ]
Among plants called plum ,
but of other genera than {
Prunus },
are ;
{
Australian plum }, {
Cargillia arborea }
and {
Cargillia australis },
of the same family with the persimmon .
{
Blood plum },
the West African {
H [
ae ]
matostaphes Barteri }.
{
Cocoa plum },
the Spanish nectarine .
See under {
Nectarine }.
{
Date plum }.
See under {
Date }.
{
Gingerbread plum },
the West African {
Parinarium macrophyllum }.
{
Gopher plum },
the Ogeechee lime .
{
Gray plum }, {
Guinea plum }.
See under {
Guinea }.
{
Indian plum },
several species of {
Flacourtia }.
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
A grape dried in the sun ;
a raisin .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
A handsome fortune or property ;
formerly ,
in cant language ,
the sum of [
pounds ]
100 ,
000 sterling ;
also ,
the person possessing it .
[
1913 Webster ]
4 .
Something likened to a plum in desirableness ;
a good or choice thing of its kind ,
as among appointments ,
positions ,
parts of a book ,
etc .;
as ,
the mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums ,
requiring little work for handsome pay [
Webster 1913 Suppl .
PJC ]
5 .
A color resembling that of a plum ;
a slightly grayish deep purple ,
varying somewhat in its red or blue tint .
[
PJC ]
{
Plum bird }, {
Plum budder } (
Zool .),
the European bullfinch .
{
Plum gouger } (
Zool .),
a weevil ,
or curculio ({
Coccotorus scutellaris }),
which destroys plums .
It makes round holes in the pulp ,
for the reception of its eggs .
The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel .
{
Plum weevil } (
Zool .),
an American weevil which is very destructive to plums ,
nectarines ,
cherries ,
and many other stone fruits .
It lays its eggs in crescent -
shaped incisions made with its jaws .
The larva lives upon the pulp around the stone .
Called also {
turk },
and {
plum curculio }.
See Illust .
under {
Curculio }.
[
1913 Webster ]
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