plum vs purple

plum

adj
  • Of a dark bluish-red colour. 

  • Choice; especially lavish or preferred. 

  • Plumb 

noun
  • A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica. 

  • Prunus americana (American plum) 

  • Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots) 

  • Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum) 

  • A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc. 

  • A fool, an idiot. 

  • Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume. 

  • A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums. 

  • An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour. 

  • Prunus ursina (bear's plum) 

  • Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum) 

  • Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum) 

  • Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum) 

  • Prunus spinosa (sloe) 

  • Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum) 

  • Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum) 

  • Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan) 

  • A testicle. 

adv
  • Completely; utterly. 

verb
  • To plumb. 

purple

adj
  • Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue. 

  • Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session. 

  • Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose. 

  • Mixed between social democrats and liberals. 

  • Imperial; regal. 

  • Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support. 

  • Blood-red; bloody. 

noun
  • Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis). 

  • Purpura. 

  • The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana. 

  • Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk. 

  • Earcockle, a disease of wheat. 

  • A cardinalate. 

  • A color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta. 

  • Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red. 

  • Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity. 

  • Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings. 

verb
  • To clothe in purple. 

  • To dye purple. 

  • To turn purple in colour. 

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