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The answer PRUNE has 156 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of prune in various dictionaries:
noun - dried plum
verb - cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
verb - weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
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Possible Crossword Clues |
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Cut back |
Trim |
Trim limbs |
Rid of the superfluous |
Wrinkled fruit |
Plum offspring |
Remove branches |
Kind of danish |
Snip what's superfluous |
What a gardener might do |
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French for plum, it means a dried plum in English |
The processed fruit of the plum tree, it also means to cut back branches to aid growth |
French for grape is raisin; French for plum is this |
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to cut off branches from a tree, bush, or plant, especially so that it will grow better in the future: |
to reduce the number or amount of something: |
Any kind of plum that can be dried without spoiling. |
To remove what is superfluous or undesirable. |
To reduce: prune a budget. |
To remove or cut out as superfluous. |
To cut off or remove dead or living parts or branches of (a plant, for example) to improve shape or growth. |
Slang To make a facial expression exhibiting ill temper or disgust: "Their faces prune at the slightest provocation ( James Wolcott). |
Slang An ill-tempered, stupid, or incompetent person. |
The partially dried fruit of any of several varieties of the common plum, Prunus domestica. |
Prune description |
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A prune is a dried plum of any cultivar, mostly Prunus domestica or European Plum. The use of the term for fresh fruit is obsolete except when applied to varieties grown for drying.Most prunes are freestone cultivars (the pit is easy to remove), whereas most other plums grown for fresh consumption are clingstone (the pit is more difficult to remove). |