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Prune

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Prune has several meanings:

  • Prune (fruit): One of multiple cultivars of the plum, or dried plums.
  • A slang term for an elderly person, from the resemblance of the wrinkled skin to that of a dried prune.
  • The verb to prune, to remove unwanted portions from a woody plant.
  • Pilot Officer Prune, a World War II British cartoon character used in training aids.

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