Plum vs. Prune

Plumnoun

The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour.

Plumnoun

The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.

Plumnoun

A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.

Plumnoun

A desirable thing.

Plumnoun

(archaic) A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling, or a person possessing it.

Plumnoun

(dated) A good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.

Plumnoun

A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.

Plumnoun

(pejorative) A fool, idiot.

Plumnoun

A testicle.

Plumnoun

The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species sharing Prunus subg. Prunus with Prunus domestica including, among others:

Plumnoun

Prunus sect. Prunus

Plumnoun

Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums

Plumnoun

Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)

Plumnoun

The stone-fruit trees which bear these fruits.

Plumnoun

The fruits of many unrelated trees and shrubs with fruit perceived to resemble plums

Plumnoun

The trees and shrubs bearing those fruits

Plumadjective

(comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.

Plumadjective

(not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.

Plumadjective

Plumb

Plumadverb

Completely; utterly.

Plumverb

(mining) To plumb.

Plumnoun

The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.

Plumnoun

A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.

Plumnoun

A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.

Plumnoun

Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.; as, the mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay

Plumnoun

A color resembling that of a plum; a slightly grayish deep purple, varying somewhat in its red or blue tint.

Plumnoun

any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone

Plumnoun

any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit

Plumadverb

exactly;

Plumadverb

completely; used as intensifiers;

Plum

A plum is a fruit of some species in Prunus subg. Prunus.

Prunenoun

(obsolete) A plum.

Prunenoun

The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.

Prunenoun

(slang) An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.

Pruneverb

To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.

Pruneverb

To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).

Pruneverb

To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.

Pruneverb

(obsolete) To preen; to prepare; to dress.

Pruneverb

To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.

Pruneverb

To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.

Pruneverb

To cut off or cut out, as useless parts.

Pruneverb

To preen; to prepare; to dress.

Pruneverb

To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt.

Prunenoun

A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes.

Prunenoun

dried plum

Pruneverb

cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;

Pruneverb

weed out unwanted or unnecessary things;

Prunenoun

a plum preserved by drying and having a black, wrinkled appearance.

Prunenoun

an unpleasant or disagreeable person

Prunenoun

an instance of trimming a tree, shrub, or bush

Pruneverb

trim (a tree, shrub, or bush) by cutting away dead or overgrown branches or stems, especially to encourage growth

Pruneverb

cut away (a branch or stem) from a tree, shrub, etc.

Pruneverb

reduce the extent of (something) by removing superfluous or unwanted parts

Pruneverb

remove (superfluous or unwanted parts) from something

Prune

A prune is a dried plum, most commonly from the European plum (Prunus domestica). Not all plum species or varieties can be dried into prunes.