prune
Meaning of prune
noun
- A plum.
- The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
- 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- 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.
- To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
to prune a budget, or an essay
- To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
- 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:
Anagrams of prune
Words that rhyme with prune
rune, brune, alrune, overprune, reprune
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