Prune
WordNet
noun
(1) Dried plum
verb
(2) Weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
"We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"
(3) Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
"Dress the plants in the garden"
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Etymology 1
From < < , variant of .
Noun
- A plum.
- The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
- An old woman, especially a wrinkly one
Etymology 2
From Old French proignier, earlier prooignier, ultimately from Latin pro- + rotundus ‘round’.
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 his vines once a year.
- To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material); as, to prune a budget.
- Section 3, in its early paragraphs, is a pruning and reshaping of THN 1.1.4–6.