Also called damson plum. the small, dark-blue or purple fruit of a plum, Prunus insititia, of the rose family, introduced into Europe from Asia Minor.
2.
a medium to dark violet.
adjective
3.
of the color damson.
Origin
1350-1400;Middle Englishdamascene, damson < Latin (prūnum) Damascēnum (plum) of Damascus; see Damascene
Examples from the web for damson
My father took the pit of a damson plum out of his mouth and dropped it into a paper bag, fluttering his fingers a little.
Some potential spawning habitat did exist between the damson the outlet.
In this stage, calves were reared with their damson pasture.
British Dictionary definitions for damson
damson
/ˈdæmzən/
noun
1.
a small rosaceous tree, Prunus domestica instititia (or P. instititia), cultivated for its blue-black edible plumlike fruit and probably derived from the bullace See also plum1 (sense 1)