Words similar to plum

Example sentences for: plum

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The NYT suggests the oddity that despite all his donations, Schwartz had been denied that supreme political plum, an overnighter in the Lincoln Bedroom.
On the one hand there were names which were qualified before being applied, like wild currant, wild fig, wild geranium, wild indigo, wild parsnip, wild spinach, wild yam; or native flax, nabox, native cherry, native cranberry, native flax, native grass, native myrtle, native parsley, native plum; or names in which the qualifier is a color, as in blue gum, green wattle, white honeysuckle.
There are, of course, many words used by men in actual reference to women, such as bird, dolly , doll, tart, boot, plum, strumpet, jade, quean, and so on.
Portuguese was the immediate source of four words (the Portuguese, it will be recalled, were also in India for several centuries, losing their colony of Goa only in December 1961): copra , from Hindi khopra via Malayalam koppara; machila or machilla `hammock slung from a pole,' from Hindi manzil (borrowed unchanged from Arabic) via Tamil macil or mancil; tael `unit of weight,' from Hindi tola (adapted from Sanskrit tula ) via Malay tahil ; and jambolan `Java plum,' the English version of Portuguese jambulao , from Hindi jambul .
Local warlords and Kuomintang officials were among the early patrons of this spa, surrounded by hills covered with bamboo, plum, magnolia, and cypress trees.