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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

- 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)...
- 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...
- Golden plum — Belize, Liberia Green Jungle — Papua New Guinea Gway — Burmese Heining – Meitei Isbaandhays or Isbaandhees — Somali, Somalia Jew Plum — Jamaica...
- curatellifolia Planch. ex Benth. – Mobola plum Parinari elmeri Merr. Parinari excelsa Sabine – Guinea plum Parinari gigantea Kosterm. Parinari hypochrysea...
- and Angola), messa, plum (Cameroon), atanga (Equatorial Guinea and Gabon), ube, elumi (Nigeria), African pear, bush pear, African plum, nsafu, bush butter...
- schizocarpa is a species of wild banana (genus Musa). It is native to New Guinea. Plummer, J. & Kallow, S. (2020). "Musa schizocarpa". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
- (Crataegus laevigata) Italian plum (Prunus cocomilia) Juniper berry Lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) Pear (Pyrus communis) Plum (Prunus domestica) Redcurrant...
- gum Syzygium ****ini (L.) Skeels – Jambul, Jambolan, Black plum, Duhat plum, Jambolan plum Syzygium curranii - Lipote Syzygium densiflorum Syzygium diffusum...
- fruit. Other common names include red mombin, Spanish plum, purple mombin, Jamaica plum, and hog plum. In countries where they are native, jocotes are also...
- lowland and lower montane habitats, especially in forests dominated by the Guinea plum (Parinari excelsa). Similar to other galagos, the dusky bushbaby is nocturnal...