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/ˈɡɹiːnɡeɪd͡ʒ/ · noun
A plum cultivar with greenish-yellow flesh and skin, Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana..
The apricot rarely produces any fruit, except in a few places, and then very scantily. The greengage plum is nearly equally unproductive.
Just where the horse trams trundled across the market was a row of fruit stalls, with fruit blazing in the sun—apples and piles of reddish oranges, small greengage plums and bananas.
Use green gage when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Green gage means A plum cultivar with greenish-yellow flesh and skin, Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana..
Common synonyms include greengage plum.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The apricot rarely produces any fruit, except in a few places, and then very scantily. The greengage plum is nearly equally unproductive.
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