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Definition of Guinea plum

Guinea plum
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.
Guinea plum
Guinea plum (Bot.), the fruit of Parinarium excelsum, a large West African tree of the order Chrysobalane[ae], having a scarcely edible fruit somewhat resembling a plum, which is also called gray plum and rough-skin plum. Guinea worm (Zo["o]l.), a long and slender African nematoid worm (Filaria Medinensis) of a white color. It lives in the cellular tissue of man, beneath the skin, and produces painful sores.

Meaning of Guinea plum from wikipedia

- Parinari excelsa, the Guinea plum, is a species of large, evergreen tree in the family Chrysobalanaceae. It has a very wide distribution in tropical Africa...
- monotypic within the genus Oreopsittacus. It is found in the New Guinea Highlands. The plum-faced lorikeet is a mainly green small parrot about 15 cm (5.9 in)...
- curatellifolia Planch. ex Benth. – Mobola plum Parinari elmeri Merr. Parinari excelsa Sabine – Guinea plum Parinari gigantea Kosterm. Parinari hypochrysea...
- Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada Golden plum — Belize, Liberia Goldpflaume — German Green Jungle — Papua New Guinea Gway — Burmese Heining (ꯍꯥꯌꯅꯤꯡ) – Meitei...
- Angola), messa, plum (Cameroon), atanga (Equatorial Guinea and Gabon), ube, elumi/ru****i (Nigeria), African pear, bush pear, African plum, nsafu, bush butter...
- northern Australia and New Guinea. The edible fruits are harvested in the wild. Common names include nonda plum, nonda tree, nunda plum and parinari. "Parinari...
- near-daily mist and clouds support cloud forests, dominated by the Guinea Plum tree (Parinari excelsa), trees of the Myrtle family (Myrtaceae), including...
- lowland and lower montane habitats, especially in forests dominated by the Guinea plum (Parinari excelsa). Similar to other galagos, the dusky bushbaby is nocturnal...
- C****owaries are native to the tropical forests of New Guinea (Western New Guinea and Papua New Guinea), the Moluccas (Seram and Aru Islands), and northeastern...
- Australia and New Guinea. C****owary may also refer to: C****owary (software), a toolkit to solve equations on a computer C****owary plum, Cerbera floribunda...