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  • From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] prune definition
  • Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:03:42 -0400

My husband's uncle, who used to grow them, sometimes referred to prune
plums as prunes. I have never heard anyone else refer to 'prune' meaning
anything other than a dried plum.

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Ginda
...... Original Message .......
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:29:22 -0700 "Alan Haigh" <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
wrote:
>I find the fact that several dictionaries include a definition of prunes
as plums that can be dried surprising. My understanding of the definition
of prunes as exclusively plums that have been dried does not come simply
from local usage but from extensive reading of literature related to
commercial fruit growing where I have no memory of encountering this usage.
I have not encountered this usage in any of the many catalogues of
commercial and home orchard nurseries that I frequently read. How about
other members? I don't quite trust my memory on this. I'm much more
interested in the usage and understanding of people who are knowledgeable
about fruit than the general population. Dictionaries, of course, are not.
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