prune

Meaning of prune

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

verb

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.
    A good grape grower will prune the vines once a year.
  2. To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
    to prune a budget, or an essay
  3. To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
  4. To preen; to prepare; to dress.

Information about prune

  • The plural form of prune is: prunes.
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Hyphenation of prune

prune

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • prune is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

prune synonyms

Meaning snip:

snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress

Meaning cut:

cut, rationalize

Anagrams of prune

Perun

Words that rhyme with prune

rune, brune, alrune, overprune, reprune

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