Prunus

Pru´nus

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(Bot.) A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.

Thesaurus

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Prunus - a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions genus Prunus rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants family Rosaceae, Rosaceae, rose family - a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens plum, plum tree - any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone plumcot, plumcot tree - hybrid produced by crossing Prunus domestica and Prunus armeniaca apricot, apricot tree - Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach common apricot, Prunus armeniaca - temperate zone tree bearing downy yellow to rosy fruits 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 cherry tree, cherry - any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood 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 Prunus caroliniana, wild orange, cherry laurel, laurel cherry, mock orange - small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States almond tree - any of several small bushy trees having pink or white blossoms and usually bearing nuts 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 common bird cherry, European bird cherry, hagberry tree, Prunus padus - small European cherry tree closely resembling the American chokecherry peach, peach tree, Prunus persica - cultivated in temperate regions nectarine, nectarine tree, Prunus persica nectarina - variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh 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 blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, sloe - a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits chokecherry tree, Prunus virginiana, chokecherry - a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds