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How to pronounce prune in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cut, rationalise, rationalize
Type of eliminate, extinguish, get rid of, do away with
Type Words
Synonyms clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, snip, trim
Type of thin out
Has types disbud, top, pinch, poll, pollard, shear
Derivation pruner, pruning
Type Words
Type of dried fruit

Examples of prune

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How and when do we prune to get these two to develop into trees, and not bushes?
From the sfgate.com
Not only should you not prune on a windy day, but don't prune without your wits.
From the delawareonline.com
Prune those lightly in early spring, then again to shape plants after flowering.
From the kansas.com
To help the plant establish a robust rootstock, prune any leaves that may arise.
From the sfgate.com
At the industry's peak in 2000, 86,000 Valley acres were planted in prune plums.
From the sacbee.com
At the time he had constipation issues, and I ended up doing a lemon-prune cake.
From the dispatch.com
If you prune at the wrong time, you'll cut off buds that may not yet be visible.
From the chron.com
An ideal time to prune most trees and shrubs is just as their buds are swelling.
From the sltrib.com
They were so massive that trying to prune them back was an exercise in futility.
From the charlotteobserver.com
More examples
  • Dried plum
  • Snip: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
  • Cut: weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"
  • (pruning) something that has been pruned off of a plant
  • (pruning) the act of trimming a plant
  • A prune is any of various plum species, mostly Prunus domestica or European Plum (commonly referred to as a Sugar Plum). It is called 'Alu-bukhara' in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. They are usually sold as dried fruit. ...
  • Pruning is a horticultural practice involving the selective removal of parts of a plant, such as branches, buds, or roots. ...
  • (Pruning (algorithm)) Pruning is a technique in machine learning that reduces the size of decision trees by removing sections of the tree that provide little power to classify instances. ...
  • (Pruning (morphology)) The pruning algorithm is a technique used for digital image processing based on mathematical morphology. It is used as a complement to the skeleton and thinning algorithms to remove unwanted parasitic components.