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Definition of Plumlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a plum fruit.
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
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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