A dried plum, now produced commercially in parts of Europe, California, and elsewhere, and eaten cooked or uncooked. (Now the usual sense.)
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > dried fruit > [noun] > prune (5) prunea1400 A dried plum, now produced commercially in parts of Europe, California, and elsewhere, and eaten cooked or uncooked. (Now the usual sense.) prunelloa1450 Originally: a small kind of plum, either fresh or dried. Later: spec. the sloe, the bitter fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), which may be… plum-damas1503 A damson or damson plum (frequently one which is dried); a prune. Usually in plural. Brignole1653 More fully Brignole plum, Brignole prune. A variety of plum having yellow flesh and a yellow skin flushed with red; a dried fruit of this variety. French plum1788 the fruit of a variety of plum (Prunus domestica), dried and exported from France; a prune; (also) the tree from which this fruit is obtained. |
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