PRUNUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Prunus mean? 

• PRUNUS (noun)
  The noun PRUNUS has 1 sense:

1. a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions

  Familiarity information: PRUNUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRUNUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Prunus; Prunus

Hypernyms ("Prunus" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Prunus"):

cherry laurel; laurel cherry; mock orange; Prunus caroliniana; wild orange (small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States)

chokecherry; chokecherry tree; Prunus virginiana (a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds)

blackthorn; Prunus spinosa; sloe (a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits)

Prunus cuneata; Prunus pumila; Prunus pumilla susquehanae; Prunus susquehanae; sand cherry (small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit)

nectarine; nectarine tree; Prunus persica nectarina (variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh)

peach; peach tree; Prunus persica (cultivated in temperate regions)

common bird cherry; European bird cherry; hagberry tree; Prunus padus (small European cherry tree closely resembling the American chokecherry)

cherry laurel; laurel cherry; Prunus laurocerasus (frequently cultivated Eurasian evergreen shrub or small tree having showy clusters of white flowers and glossy foliage and yielding oil similar to bitter almond oil)

almond tree (any of several small bushy trees having pink or white blossoms and usually bearing nuts)

Prunus besseyi; Rocky Mountains cherry; Western sand cherry (dwarf ornamental shrub of western United States having large black to red and yellow sweet edible fruit)

cherry; cherry tree (any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood)

black apricot; Prunus dasycarpa; purple apricot (small hybrid apricot of Asia and Asia Minor having purplish twigs and white flowers following by inferior purple fruit)

common apricot; Prunus armeniaca (temperate zone tree bearing downy yellow to rosy fruits)

apricot; apricot tree (Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach)

plumcot; plumcot tree (hybrid produced by crossing Prunus domestica and Prunus armeniaca)

plum; plum tree (any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone)

Holonyms ("Prunus" is a member of...):

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)

 Context examples 

The oil extracted from the seed press-cake of Prunus amygdalus var. amara.

(Bitter Almond Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

The oil extracted from the seed fruits of Prunus amygdalus.

(Almond Oil, NCI Thesaurus)