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prunus

prunus noun: a type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.

Noun

prunus (uncountable)

  1. A type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.
    • […] 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.”2009 January 23, Eve M. Kahn, “Conversation-Piece Buys, Maybe. Intriguing Histories, Definitely.”, in New York Times

Origin of prunus

Borrowed from Latin prūnus. Doublet of prune and plum.

Questions about prunus

What does prunus mean?
Prunus means a type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.
What part of speech is prunus?
Prunus is a noun.

Words near prunus in the dictionary

  1. prunt
  2. prunted
  3. prunts
  4. Prunty
  5. Pruntys
  6. prunus
  7. pruny
  8. pruriception
  9. pruriceptive
  10. pruriceptor
  11. pruriceptors

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