Difference between Lop and Prune

What is the difference between Lop and Prune?

Lop as a noun is a flea. while Prune as a noun is a plum.

Lop

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A flea.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree.

Prune

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A plum.The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.An old woman, especially a wrinkly one

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material); as, to prune a budget.

Example sentence: Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

We hope you now know whether to use Lop or Prune in your sentence.

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