See also:

• PRUNE (adapted in various forms, e.g. prunne, proyne, &c., from Fr. prune, Med. Lat. pruna, Lat. prunum, Gr. irpovvov, earlier Trpouµvov, plum)

PRUNE (adapted in various forms, e.g. prunne, proyne, &c., from Fr. prune, Med. See also:

• LAT

Lat. pruna, Lat. prunum, Gr. irpovvov, earlier Trpouµvov, See also:

• PLUM

plum)  , the name generally given to the See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit of various See also:

• SPECIES

species of plums, dried, and used either stewed as a dish or See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain as a dessert fruit . The finest dessert prunes, known as " See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French plums," are produced from the St See also:

• JULIEN, STANISLAS (1797?-1873)

Julien See also:

• PLUM

plum-See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree and are dried and exported from the valley of the See also:

• LOIRE

Loire in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France . See also:

• CALIFORNIA
• CALIFORNIA, LOWER (Baja California)
• CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF

California now produces a See also:

• FINE

fine quality of " See also:

• PRUNE (adapted in various forms, e.g. prunne, proyne, &c., from Fr. prune, Med. Lat. pruna, Lat. prunum, Gr. irpovvov, earlier Trpouµvov, plum)

prune." In scientific nomenclature, Prunus is the name of a genus of rosaceous trees, the type of the tribe pruneae, of which the plum, See also:

• APRICOT (from the Lat. praecox, or praecoquus, ripened early, coquere, to cook, or ripen; the English form, formerly " apricock " and " abrecox," comes through the Fr. abricot, from the Span. albaricoque, which was an adaptation of the Arabic al-burquk, i

apricot, See also:

• PEACH
• PEACH, CHARLES WILLIAM (1800-1886)

peach, See also:

• CHERRY

cherry, &c., are species (see further under PLUM) . From this word must be distinguished " to prune," (1) to cut or See also:

• TRIM

trim superfluous growth from a See also:

• SHRUB

shrub or tree in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to encourage fresh growth and bring into See also:

• REGULAR

regular See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, &c., and (2) to trim or See also:

• DRESS (from the Fr. dresser, to set out, arrange, formed from Lat. directus, arranged, dirigere, to direct, arrange)

dress the feathers with the See also:

• BILL

bill, used of a See also:

• BIRD

bird " preening " itself . In the first sense the word is an See also:

• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation (16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century) of the Old French proigner, the second sense appears in the end of the 14th century but is not found in French .