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▸ noun: The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
▸ noun: (figurative) Something wrinkly like a prune.
▸ noun: (slang) An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.
▸ verb: (intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
▸ verb: (transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
▸ verb: (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove (something unnecessary) for the sake of cutting down or shortening that which it was previously part of.
▸ verb: (transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To preen; to prepare; to dress.
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