(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:53:55

Dam"son (?), n. [OE. damasin the Damascus plum, fr. L. Damascenus. See Damascene.]

A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.

 

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