prune

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

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

Noun

1. (obsolete) A plum.
2. The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
3. Something wrinkly like a prune.
4. (slang) An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.

Conceptos

podar

ciruela

ciruela pasa

mondar

despampanar

ciruela desecada

ciruela seca

limpiar

entresacar

menguar

mermar

disminuir

recortar

escamondar

Sinónimos

trim

cut

lop

clip

plum

cut down

cut off

dried plum

dress

👗

cut off branches

crop

chop

lop off

cut back

break off

reap

chop off

shear

shorten

snip

pollard

rationalise

rationalize

harvest

reduce

peel

pick

⛏️

pluck

preserves

put down

razee

retrench

scale down

shrink

simpleton

space

stool

terrace

thin out

tiller

top

🔝

whittle down

make an opening

cut and hang down

cut shorter

leave space

prunus salicina

stair step

abbreviate

prune-purple

abridge

amputate

attenuate

ax

axe

🪓

clear

clear away

clear land

cow

🐮

curtail

damson

decline

decrease

diminish

disbud

extenuate

fell

hack

layer

lessen

lower

make smaller

mitigate

mow

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/pɹuːn/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: prune

Heredado de inglés medio: prunen

In summary

From Middle English prune, from Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *prūna, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦνον (proûnon), variant of προῦμνον (proûmnon, “plum”), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor. Doublet of plum.