Difference between Plum and Prune

What is the difference between Plum and Prune?

Plum as a noun is the edible, fleshy stone fruit of prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour. while Prune as a noun is a plum.

Plum

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour. The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica. A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums. A desirable thing. A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake. A fool, idiot A testicle. The edible, fleshy stone of Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume. The tree which bears this fruit, Prunus mume. See plum blossom.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Completely; utterly.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of a dark bluish-red colour. Choice; especially lavish or preferred.

Example sentence: I had been going around to everybody saying Katherine Heigl has to be 'Stephanie Plum', and then one day, I got that phone call saying that it was Katherine.

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.

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

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