Translingual

Prunus cerasus

Proper noun

Prunus f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Rosaceae – the plums, cherries, peaches, apricots and almonds.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Rosales - order; Rosaceae - family; Amygdaloideae - subfamily; Amygdaleae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Prunus subg. Amygdalus, Prunus subg. Cerasus, Prunus subg. Emplectocladus, Prunus subg. Prunus - subgenera
  • Prunus domestica (plum) - type species; Prunus spinosa (blackthorn), Prunus cerasus (sour cherry), Prunus armeniaca (apricot), Prunus mume, Prunus avium (sweet cherry), Prunus padus (bird cherry) - selected species. For more of the numerous species see Prunus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies or Prunus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Noun

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”, in Conversation-Piece Buys, Maybe. Intriguing Histories, Definitely.:

     […] 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.”

Anagrams

• runs up
• runups, run-ups

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpruː.nus/

Noun

prūnus f ‎(genitive prūnī); second declension

1. A plum tree.

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• prūnniceus
• prūnum

Descendants

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “prunus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.