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PRUNE (adapted in various forms, e.g. prunne, proyne, &c., from Fr. prune, Med. Lat. pruna, Lat. prunum, Gr. irpovvov, earlier Trpouvov, plum)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 518 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PRUNE (adapted in various forms, e.g. prunne, proyne, &c., from Fr. prune, Med. Lat. pruna, Lat. prunum, Gr. irpovvov, earlier Trpouvov, plum) , the name generally given to the fruit of various species of plums, dried, and used either stewed as a dish or plain as a dessert fruit. The finest dessert prunes, known as " French plums," are produced from the St Julien plum-tree and are dried and exported from the valley of the Loire in France.

California

now produces a fine quality of "

prune

PRUNE (adapted in various forms, e.g. prunne, proyne, &c., from Fr. prune, Med. Lat. pruna, Lat. prunum, Gr. irpovvov, earlier Trpouľvov, plum)

." In scientific nomenclature, Prunus is the name of a genus of rosaceous trees, the type of the tribe pruneae, of which the plum,

apricot

APRICOT (from the Lat. praecox, or praecoquus, ripened early, coquere, to cook, or ripen; the
English
- ENGLISH
form, formerly " apricock " and " abrecox," comes through the Fr. abricot, from the Span. albaricoque, which was an adaptation of the Arabic al-burquk, i

peach

PEACH
PEACH, CHARLES WILLIAM (1800-1886)

cherry

CHERRY

, &c., are species (see further under PLUM). From this word must be distinguished " to

prune

PRUNE (adapted in various forms, e.g. prunne, proyne, &c., from Fr. prune, Med. Lat. pruna, Lat. prunum, Gr. irpovvov, earlier Trpouľvov, plum)

," (1) to cut or trim superfluous growth from a shrub or tree in order to encourage fresh growth and bring into

regular

REGULAR

form, &c., and (2) to trim or dress the feathers with the

bill

BILL

, used of a bird " preening " itself. In the first sense the word is an adaptation (16th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

) of the Old French proigner, the second sense appears in the end of the 14th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

but is not found in French.

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PRUNE (adapted in various forms, e.g. prunne, proyne, &c., from Fr. prune, Med. Lat. pruna, Lat. prunum, Gr. irpovvov, earlier Trpouvov, plum)

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