Plum

1. Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Prunus, bearing smooth-skinned, fleshy, edible fruit with a single hard-shelled stone that encloses the seed. Several plums grow around our farm.
2. The fruit of any of these trees. We often eat the yellow and purple plums.
3. A especially desirable position, assignment, or reward. As a plum, he was sent to Hawaii on a business trip.