In article , Mathew
writes
Hello to all olive and plum experts, can someone please help me with a
small problem that I am having?

Is an olive a type of plum?

The definition of plum is "any of numerous varieties of small to
medium-sized round or oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit"
this seems to account for olives as well.

That is a dictionary definition. It doesn't mean *any*
"medium-sized round or oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit"

it means, as it says, any of "*numerous* *varieties* of
medium-sized round or oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit"

It doesn't define the numerous varieties, but basically they are all
varieties of particular species of Prunus.


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