prune tree
noun
1A plum tree; (in later use) specifically one of a variety having fruit suitable for drying.
2 Caribbean the tree Prunus occidentalis, having bark used medicinally and kernels used in the production of liqueur, and yielding useful timber.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in Thomas Newton (d. 1607), translator and Church of England clergyman.
- someone's better nature
- someone's blood is worth bottling
- someone's ears are flapping
- someone's face fits
- someone's kind
- someone's name is mud
- someone's number is up
- someone's (or something's) days are numbered
- someone's (or the) best plan
- someone's tongue is hanging out
- someplace
- somersault
- Somerset
- Somerville
- somesthetic
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- something else
- something fierce
- something for the weekend
- something is up
- something like
- something nasty in the woodshed
- something of
- something of the kind
- something or other