Prune

Noun

 * 1)  A plum.
 * 2) The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
 * 3)  An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:old woman

Derived terms

 * pruney

Verb

 * 1)  To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
 * A good grape grower will prune his vines once a year.
 * 1)  To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material); as, to prune a budget.
 * Section 3, in its early paragraphs, is a pruning and reshaping of THN 1.1.4–6.

Thesaurus
abbreviate, abridge, abscind, abstract, amputate, annihilate, ax, backset, ban, bar, bisect, blockhead, bob, boil down, brash, butcher, capsulize, carve, chop, chump, cleave, clip, compress, condense, contract, crop, cull, cultivate, culture, curtail, cut, cut away, cut back, cut down, cut in two, cut off, cut off short, cut out, cut short, delve, dichotomize, dig, dimwit, dissever, dock, dolt, dope, dress, dumbbell, elide, eliminate, enucleate, epitomize, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, extinguish, extirpate, fallow, fertilize, fissure, force, foreshorten, gash, hack, halve, harrow, hew, hoe, idiot, ignoramus, incise, isolate, jigsaw, knock off, lance, list, lop, moron, mow, mulch, mutilate, nip, pare, peel, pick out, plow, poll, pollard, rake, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, rend, retrench, rive, root out, rule out, saw, scissor, set apart, set aside, sever, shave, shear, shorten, skive, slash, slice, slit, snip, snub, spade, split, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, stunt, sum up, summarize, sunder, synopsize, take in, take off, take out, tear, telescope, thin, thin out, till, till the soil, trim, truncate, weed, weed out, whittle, wipe out, work

Etymology 1
From prune:, from  prunum:, from  προῦνον:, variant of προῦμνον:.

Etymology 2
From proignier:, earlier prooignier:, ultimately from  pro-: ("front") + rotundus: 'to round-off the front'.

Noun
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 * Arabic: {{t|ar|أجاص|sc=Arab|tr=’ajāṣ)
 * Armenian: {{t|hy|սալորաչիր|tr=saloračir|sc=Armn}}
 * Bosnian: {{t-|bs|suha šljiva|f}}, {{t-|bs|suva šljiva|f}}
 * Czech: {{t-|cs|sušená švestka|f}}
 * Danish: {{t|da|sveske|c}}
 * Finnish: kuivattu luumu
 * French: {{t+|fr|pruneau|m}}
 * German: {{t|de|Backpflaume|f}}, {{t|de|Trockenpflaume|f}}
 * Hungarian: {{t|hu|aszalt szilva}}
 * Italian: {{t-|it|prugna secca|f}}
 * Navajo: {{tø|nv|chʼil naʼatłʼoʼiitsoh}}
 * Polish: {{t|pl|suszona śliwka|f}}
 * Romanian: {{t|ro|prună uscată|f}}
 * Russian: {{t+|ru|чернослив|sc=Cyrl}}
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: {{t|sh|сува шљива|f|sc=Cyrl}}
 * Roman: {{t|sh|suva šljiva|f}}
 * Spanish: {{t-|es|ciruela pasa|f}}
 * Swedish: {{t-|sv|katrinplommon|n}}, {{t|sv|sviskon|n}}
 * Turkish: {{t|tr|kuru erik}}

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 * Dutch: {{t+|nl|besje|n}}

Verb

 * Arabic: خوخ مجفف
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: karsia, oksia, vesoa
 * French:
 * German: ausschneiden, schneiden
 * Greek:


 * Italian:, ,
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian: beskjære
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: прореживать
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch: inkorten,
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: podar

Anagrams

 * Perun

Noun

 * 1) plum

Etymology
From pruna:.

Derived terms

 * pruneau
 * prunier