Plum is a smooth-skinned fruit that grows on trees, typically round or oval, with sweet, juicy flesh surrounding a single hard pit in the center. Plums come in many colors: deep purple, bright red, yellow, or even green. Some varieties taste sweet enough to eat fresh, while tarter ones work better for cooking or making jam.

Plum trees bloom with beautiful white or pink flowers in spring before producing fruit in summer. People have cultivated plums for thousands of years across Asia, Europe, and now North America. When plums are dried, they become prunes, which look wrinkled but taste intensely sweet.

The word also describes something highly desirable or valuable. A plum job is an especially good position that many people would want. If you got a plum role in the school play, you landed one of the best parts. When something is described as plum, it means choice or excellent, like getting the plum seat in the front row or receiving a plum assignment that lets you work on something exciting.