Plum (disambiguation)
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Plum
Plum
A plum or gage is a stone fruit tree in the genus Prunus, subgenus Prunus. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera in the shoots having a terminal bud and solitary side buds , the flowers in groups of one to five together on short stems, and the fruit having a groove running down one...

refers to both a type of tree, and the fruit stemming from that tree.

Plum may also refer to:

Places

  • Plum, Pennsylvania
    Plum, Pennsylvania
    Plum is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 27,126 at the 2010 census.Plum is often referred to as "Plum Boro" or more correctly "Plum Borough" by locals to distinguish it from its previous status as a township...

  • Plum, Texas
    Plum, Texas
    Plum is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Texas, United States. Although it is unincorporated, Plum has a post office, with the ZIP code of 78952.-External links:* Handbook of Texas Online....

  • Plum Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania
  • Plum, New Caledonia
    Plum, New Caledonia
    Plum is a coastal village in the commune of Le Mont-Dore on the southwest coast of New Caledonia, just north of Pirogues Bay. The Plum River empties into the sea near the western part of the village and lucky Creek flows into the sea to the southeast.Important chrome discoveries were made in the...


People

  • Plum Sykes
    Plum Sykes
    Victoria "Plum" Sykes is an English-born fashion-writer, novelist and New York socialite. "Plum" was a childhood nickname .- Early years and antecedents :...

     (born 1969), fashion writer and novelist
  • Plum Warner
    Plum Warner
    Sir Pelham Francis Warner MBE , affectionately and better known as Plum Warner, or even "the Grand Old Man" of English cricket was a Test cricketer....

     (1873-1963), British cricketer
  • P. G. Wodehouse
    P. G. Wodehouse
    Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...

     (1881-1975), British humorist, known as "Plum" to friends and family

Fictional characters

  • Professor Plum, character in the game Cluedo (aka Clue)
  • Stephanie Plum
    Stephanie Plum
    Stephanie Plum is a fictional character and the protagonist in a series of novels written by Janet Evanovich. She is a spunky combination of Nancy Drew and Dirty Harry, and - although a female bounty hunter - is the opposite of Domino Harvey...

    , protagonist of several novels by Janet Evanovich

See also

  • Plumb (disambiguation)
  • Plum Creek (disambiguation)
  • Plum Island (disambiguation)
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