prunus

Borrowed from Latin prūnus. Doublet of prune and plum.

prunus (uncountable)

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

     […] 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.”

• nupurs, run ups, run-ups, runs up, runups, upruns

Borrowed from Ancient Greek προύνη (proúnē), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpruː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpruː.nus]

prūnus f (genitive prūnī); second declension

1. plum tree.

Second-declension noun.

• prūnniceus
• prūnum

• “prunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• prunus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.