: a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation
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Recent Examples of prune from the Web
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Taking a fiber supplement or drinking a glass of prune juice can also help.
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The chocolate tart’s brownie-like texture was touched with smoke and the earthy kiss of beet-prune jam.
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As the plant matures, prune to eliminate scraggly stems.
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There’s much more to Lodi than heavy, over-oaked Zinfandel that tastes like prunes or raisins.
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And getting more fiber doesn’t limit you to eating only prunes and wheat bran.
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Old Chatham Ewe’s Blue is a deeply mottled sheep’s milk blue in the style of Roquefort with notes of fresh and cooked fruits (think grandma’s stewed prunes, but appetizing) and a buttermilk-like tang.
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Dried fruits — such as apricots, prunes and figs — are high in fiber.
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From the Montilla-Moriles region, this wine offers prune, vanilla, brown sugar, raisins, chocolate, nuts and 16 percent alcohol.
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Origin and Etymology of prune
Middle English, from Anglo-French, plum, from Latin prunum — more at plum
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First Known Use: 14th century
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pruned;
pruning
1 a
: to reduce especially by eliminating superfluous matter
- pruned the text
- prune the budget
b
: to remove as superfluous
- prune away all ornamentation
2
: to cut off or cut back parts of for better shape or more fruitful growth
- prune the branches
: to cut away what is unwanted or superfluous
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pruner
nounExamples of prune in a Sentence
She carefully pruned the hedge.
Those trees need to be pruned every year.
The students were asked to prune their essays.
The budget needs to be pruned.
Recent Examples of prune from the Web
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After the Supreme Court upheld Ohio's aggressive methods of pruning its voter registration rolls Monday, a triumphant Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted suggested other states look to it as a model.
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Some are never or rarely pruned to develop their natural shrub or tree forms.
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The sad little plots held only a few dreary evergreens pruned into geometric shapes, but Ms. Lilleskov, 60, a registered nurse and lactation consultant, saw their potential.
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Two months of rapid-fire learning followed: staking and pruning, sowing and planting, container potting and color conceptualizing.
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Sharp blades ensure cleaner cuts when digging, pruning, and trimming.
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Reshape blueberry shrubs and hedges and prune blackberries.
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But someone has to plant, mulch and prune all that foliage.
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Parent General Motors continues to prune excess weight from virtually all of its sedans and tall wagons.
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PRUNE Defined for English Language Learners
prune
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: to cut off some of the branches of (a tree or bush) so that it will grow better or look better
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: to reduce (something) by removing parts that are not necessary or wanted
PRUNE Defined for Kids
: a dried plum
pruned;
pruning
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: to cut off dead or unwanted parts of a bush or tree
2
: to cut out useless or unwanted parts (as unnecessary words in something written)
Medical Dictionary
noun
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ˈprün
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: a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation and often used as a food and as a mild laxative
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