Prune juice

prune1   Pronunciation Key  (prn)
n.
  1.  
    1. The partially dried fruit of any of several varieties of the common plum, Prunus domestica.
    2. Any kind of plum that can be dried without spoiling.
  2. Slang. An ill-tempered, stupid, or incompetent person.
 

[Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *prna, from Latin prnum, plum.]

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prune

\Prune\, n. [F. prune, from L. prunum a plum. See Plum.] A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes.

German prune (Bot.), a large dark purple plum, of oval shape, often one-sided. It is much used for preserving, either dried or in sirup.

Prune tree. (Bot.) (a) A tree of the genus Prunus (P. domestica), which produces prunes. (b) The West Indian tree, Prunus occidentalis.

South African prune (Bot.), the edible fruit of a sapindaceous tree (Pappea Capensis).
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


prune

n : dried plum v 1: cut back the growth of, of bushes and trees [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, cut back] 2: weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet" [syn: cut, rationalize]
Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University