Vocabulary : Prune to Prurience

Prune : 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. ;; To cut off or cut out, as useless parts. ;; To preen; to prepare; to dress. ;; To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt. ;; A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes.
Pruned : of Prune
Prunella : Angina, or angina pectoris. ;; Thrush. ;; Alt. of Prunello
Prunelle : A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.
Prunello : A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns. ;; A species of dried plum; prunelle.

Pruner : One who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous. ;; Any one of several species of beetles whose larvae gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner (Asemum moestum), whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa.
Pruniferous : Bearing plums.
Pruning : of Prune ;; The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous. ;; That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers; leavings.
Prunus : A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.
Prurience : Alt. of Pruriency

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