maiden plum

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Noun[edit]

maiden plum (plural maiden plums)

  1. A West Indian tree, Comocladia pinnatifolia, with purplish drupes. The sap of the tree is glutinous, and gives a persistent black stain.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for maiden plum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)