English Explanatory Dictionary

prune

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A plum.
  2. The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
  3. Something wrinkly like a prune.
  4. An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.
verb
  1. To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
verb
  1. To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
  2. To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
  3. To remove (something unnecessary) for the sake of cutting down or shortening that which it was previously part of.
  4. To remove participation status from or contributed material attributed to users usually deemed inactive or undesirable from an interactive computer service or website for the sake of housekeeping.
  5. To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
  6. To trim the feathers with the beak.
  7. To preen; to prepare; to dress.

Pronunciation

/pɹuːn/ /pɹun/ /pɹʉːn/ En-au-prune.ogg /pɹɪu̯n/

Word forms

prune prunes proin pruning pruned

Etymology

From Middle English prune, from Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *prūna, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦνον (proûnon), variant of προῦμνον (proûmnon, “plum”), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor. Doublet of plum.

Synonyms

old woman

Derived words

German prune mirabelle prune prune belly syndrome prunelike prune plum prune tree pruney pruno pruny South African prune alpha-beta pruning en overprune prunable pruner pruning reprune underprune unpruned

Translations

Arabic: أَجَاص Arabic: عَوِينَة Arabic: عَوِينَة مُجَفَّفَة Arabic: خَوْخ مُجَفَّف Armenian: սալորաչիր Bulgarian: сушена слива Catalan: pruna seca Chinese Mandarin: 李子乾 /李子干 Chinese Mandarin: 西梅乾 /西梅干 Chinese Mandarin: 乾梅子 /干梅子 Chinese Mandarin: 梅乾 /梅干 Czech: sušená švestka Danish: sveske Dutch: gedroogde pruim Esperanto: sekigita pruno Finnish: kuivattu luumu French: pruneau Galician: ameixa secada German: Backpflaume German: Trockenpflaume German: Dörrpflaume Greek: αποξηραμένο δαμάσκηνο Hungarian: aszalt szilva Icelandic: sveskja Irish: prúna Italian: prugna secca Japanese: プルーン Japanese: 西洋李 Korean: 말린 자두 Macedonian: сува слива Māori: paramu menge Māori: purunu Middle English: prune Navajo: chʼil naʼatłʼoʼiitsoh Norwegian Bokmål: sviske Norwegian Nynorsk: sviske Polish: suszona śliwka Portuguese: ameixa seca Romanian: prună uscată Russian: черносли́в Scottish Gaelic: prùn Scottish Gaelic: searg Serbo-Croatian: сува шљива Serbo-Croatian: suva šljiva Slovak: sušená slivka Slovene: suha sliva Spanish: ciruela pasa Spanish: pruna seca Spanish: guindón Swedish: katrinplommon Swedish: sviskon Turkish: kuru erik Ukrainian: чорно́слив Vietnamese: nho khô Walloon: caetche Walloon: pronne Walloon: purnea
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