Crimson vs. Plum

Crimsonnoun

A deep, slightly bluish red.

Crimsonadjective

Having a deep red colour.

Crimsonadjective

Immodest.

Crimsonverb

(intransitive) To become crimson or deep red; to blush.

Crimsonverb

(transitive) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

Crimsonnoun

A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.

Crimsonadjective

Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.

Crimsonverb

To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

Crimsonverb

To become crimson; to blush.

Crimsonnoun

a deep and vivid red

Crimsonverb

turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame;

Crimsonadjective

having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

Crimsonadjective

characterized by violence or bloodshed;

Crimsonadjective

(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion;

Crimsonadjective

of a rich deep red colour inclining to purple

Crimsonnoun

a rich deep red colour inclining to purple

Crimsonverb

(of a person's face) become flushed, especially through embarrassment

Crimson

Crimson is a rich, deep red color, inclining to purple. It originally meant the color of the kermes dye produced from a scale insect, Kermes vermilio, but the name is now sometimes also used as a generic term for slightly bluish-red colors that are between red and rose.

Plumnoun

The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour.

Plumnoun

The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.

Plumnoun

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

Plumnoun

A desirable thing.

Plumnoun

(archaic) A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling, or a person possessing it.

Plumnoun

(dated) A good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.

Plumnoun

A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.

Plumnoun

(pejorative) A fool, idiot.

Plumnoun

A testicle.

Plumnoun

The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species sharing Prunus subg. Prunus with Prunus domestica including, among others:

Plumnoun

Prunus sect. Prunus

Plumnoun

Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums

Plumnoun

Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)

Plumnoun

The stone-fruit trees which bear these fruits.

Plumnoun

The fruits of many unrelated trees and shrubs with fruit perceived to resemble plums

Plumnoun

The trees and shrubs bearing those fruits

Plumadjective

(comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.

Plumadjective

(not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.

Plumadjective

Plumb

Plumadverb

Completely; utterly.

Plumverb

(mining) To plumb.

Plumnoun

The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.

Plumnoun

A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.

Plumnoun

A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.

Plumnoun

Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.; as, the mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay

Plumnoun

A color resembling that of a plum; a slightly grayish deep purple, varying somewhat in its red or blue tint.

Plumnoun

any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone

Plumnoun

any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit

Plumadverb

exactly;

Plumadverb

completely; used as intensifiers;

Plum

A plum is a fruit of some species in Prunus subg. Prunus.