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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.
  
     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. Among plants called plum, but of other
        genera than Prunus, are;
  
     Australian plum, Cargillia arborea and C. 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.
  
     2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.
  
     3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant
        language, the sum of [pounds]100,000 sterling; also, the
        person possessing it.
  
     Plum bird, Plum budder (Zo["o]l.), the European
        bullfinch.
  
     Plum gouger (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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.