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Fruit like a small plum
Answer for the clue "Fruit like a small plum ", 9 letters:
greengage
Alternative clues for the word greengage
Word definitions for greengage in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum [syn: greengage plum ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin (taxlink Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana variety noshow=1).
Usage examples of greengage.
When they had a neighbour to dinner on Sundays, she managed to have some tasty dish--piled up pyramids of greengages on vine leaves, served up preserves turned out into plates--and even spoke of buying finger-glasses for dessert.
On the table in the pavilion Kitty had put a big blue bowl of greengages and plums from Rannaldini's orchard, a matching blue vase of yellow snapdragons and red dahlias and two big jugs of lemon barley water but no alcohol.