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What (who) is Damson - definition

SPECIES OF PLANT
Damask Plum; Damsons; Prunus domestica subsp. insititia; Damascene plum; Prunus domestica insititia
  • Damson flowers
  • Comparison of plum stones: Shropshire damson shown top row, second from left (no. 2). From [[Charles Darwin]]'s ''[[Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication]]''
  • Shropshire Damson, shown at centre left. Other plums shown are Imperial Gage (labelled 1), Lombard (3), Maynard (4) and Yellow Egg (5).
  • [[Slivovitz]] is a distilled beverage made from damson plums.

Damson         
·noun A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica;
- called also damask plum.
damson         
['damz(?)n]
¦ noun
1. a small purple-black plum-like fruit.
2. (also damson tree) the small tree which bears damsons, probably derived from the bullace. [Prunus domestica subsp. insititia.]
Origin
ME damascene, from L. damascenum (prunum) '(plum) of Damascus'.
damson         
(damsons)
A damson is a small, sour, purple plum.
N-COUNT

Wikipedia

Damson

The damson () or damson plum (Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, or sometimes Prunus insititia), also archaically called the "damascene", is an edible drupaceous fruit, a subspecies of the plum tree. Varieties of insititia are found across Europe, but the name damson is derived from and most commonly applied to forms that are native to Great Britain. Damsons are relatively small ovoid plum-like fruit with a distinctive, somewhat astringent taste, and are widely used for culinary purposes, particularly in fruit preserves and jams.

In South and Southeast Asia, the term damson plum sometimes refers to jamblang, the fruit from a tree in the family Myrtaceae. The name "mountain damson" or "bitter damson" was also formerly applied in Jamaica to the tree Simarouba amara.

Examples of use of Damson
1. The very best crumbles are with damson, or with cooking apples and blackberry or gooseberry.
2. He will defend the north‘s culinary reputation with a menu featuring potted shrimps from Southport, Lyth Valley damson bread–and–butter pudding, and local cheeses, to see off competition from fellow northerner Marcus Wareing, chef at London‘s Savoy Grill. ‘When southerners think of the north, they imagine a people who barely know how to use a knife and fork, much less have any appreciation of the restaurant culture,‘ he said . ‘We have compounded the assumption that our food revolves entirely around pie and peas by sticking up for regional dishes such as Lancaster hotpot and Eccles cakes.