damson

damson

English

damson plum fruits

Alternative forms

• damascene (archaic)

Etymology

Middle English damascene, damasyn, damacene, from Latin prūnum damascēnum (“Damascene plum, plum of Damascus”). Doublet of damascene.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdæmzən/

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Noun

damson (plural damsons)

1. A subspecies of plum tree, Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, native to Eurasia.
2. The edible fruit of this tree.
   • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

     But Richmond […] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw […] that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.

Translations

tree

Armenian: դամոն (hy) (damon) Catalan: prunyoner m Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: trnoslíva f, trnoslívka f, slivoň slíva f Danish: kræge Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kriikunapuu French: prunier de Damas (fr) m, prunéolier m, créquier (fr) m (Northeast) Galician: fatoeiro (gl) m Georgian: ღოღნოშო (ɣoɣnošo), დამასხი (damasxi) German: Kriechenpflaumenbaum m, Krieche f, Kriechenpflaume f Greek: αγριοδαμάσκηνο n (agriodamáskino) Ancient: σποδιάς f (spodiás) Ido: quechiero (io) Irish: crann daimsíní m Middle English: damasyn Old Prussian: krichaytos Polish: lubaszka (pl) f Portuguese: abrunheiro (pt) m Romanian: goldan (ro) m, renglot m Russian: терносли́в (ru) m (ternoslív), терносли́ва (ru) f (ternoslíva) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: трно̀шљива f Latin: trnòšljiva (sh) f Slovak: trnoslivka f Slovene: trnọ́səlj m, drnọ́səlj m Swedish: krikonträd n, krikon (sv) n

fruit

Armenian: դամոն (hy) (damon) Bulgarian: синя слива f (sinja sliva) Burmese: မက်မန်းသီး (makman:si:) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: kræge Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kriikuna (fi) French: quetsche (fr) f, (Switzerland) pruneau (fr) m, crèque (fr) f (Northeast) Galician: fatón (gl) m Georgian: ღოღნოშო (ɣoɣnošo), დამასხი (damasxi) German: Krieche f, Kriechenpflaume f Middle Low German: kreke f Low German: Kreke f Greek: αγριοδαμάσκηνο n (agriodamáskino) Ido: quecho (io), damaceno (io) Irish: daimsín m Lithuanian: kryklė (lt) f Middle English: damasyn Norman: preune dé Damas f Norwegian: Bokmål: sviske (no) m or f Nynorsk: sviske f Old Prussian: krichaytos Polish: lubaszka (pl) f Portuguese: abrunho (pt) m Romanian: goldană (ro) f, renglotă (ro) f Romansch: primbla f Russian: терносли́в (ru) m (ternoslív), терносли́ва (ru) f (ternoslíva) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: трно̀шљива f Latin: trnòšljiva (sh) f Slovak: trnoslivka f Slovene: trnọ́səlj m, drnọ́səlj m Swedish: krikon (sv) n Welsh: please add this translation if you can

Adjective

damson (comparative more damson, superlative most damson)

1. The color of the fruit of this tree, a very deep purple.

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Derived terms

• bitter damson (Simarouba amara)
• damson plum (Syzygium cumini)
• mountain damson (Simarouba amara)

Further reading

• damson on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Domans, Madson, Mondas, mad ons, mad-ons, mandos, monads, nomads

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Middle English

Noun

damson

1. Alternative form of damasyn