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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin prūnus. Doublet of prune and plum.
Noun
prunus (uncountable)
- (ceramics) A type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.
2009 January 23, Eve M. Kahn, “Conversation-Piece Buys, Maybe. Intriguing Histories, Definitely.”, in New York Times:[…] a caption by two 1740s Meissen plates ($27,500 for the pair) notes that they belonged to Saxon royals and have a pattern often mislabeled as a crouching lion but “in reality a tiger prowling amongst prunus.”
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek προύνη (proúnē), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor.
Pronunciation
Noun
prūnus f (genitive prūnī); second declension
- plum tree.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “prunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “prunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- prunus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.