🇬🇧🇪🇸 plum - ciruela : English Lesson

Meaning of "plum" ("ciruela"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A plum is a soft, round fruit with smooth skin that can be purple, red, yellow, or green. Inside, it has sweet or slightly tart flesh and a hard pit (seed) in the center. Plums grow on trees and are delicious fresh, dried (as prunes), or in jams and desserts. They’re also full of vitamins and fiber!

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I brought a plum to show-and-tell, but I ate it halfway through my sentence.

I drew a face on my plum and now it’s my emotional support fruit.

I tried to juggle plums, but now the floor is a fruity battlefield.

I dropped my plum and it rolled away like it had weekend plans.

Plums were one of the first fruits ever grown by people.

She spotted a plum on the low branch and reached up. The plum fit in her hand; sunlight warmed the plum skin. She bit a plum and sweet juice ran down her chin. The hard pit from that plum rolled into the grass. She smiled, wiped her chin, and ate the rest.

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This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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