Greengage

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Plum \Plum\, n. [AS. pl[=u]me, fr. L. prunum; akin to Gr. ?, ?.
     Cf. {Prune} a dried plum.]
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     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}.
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              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.
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     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.
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     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}.
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     2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.
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     3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant
        language, the sum of [pounds]100,000 sterling; also, the
        person possessing it.
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     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
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     5. A color resembling that of a plum; a slightly grayish deep
        purple, varying somewhat in its red or blue tint.
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     {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}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  greengage
       n : sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum [syn: {greengage
           plum}]