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Why don’t we refer to prunes as dried plums? Prune and plum come from the same distant etymological roots and traveled into English via French and German respectively. The French still use prune for “plum.” Other foods that undergo...
The term dried plum has come into vogue since prune seems to have some negative connotations. This is part of a complete episode.
Dry a grape and it becomes a raisin, dry a plum and it turns into a prune. Why don’t we just call them dried grapes and dried plums? This is part of a complete episode.
hat-rack v. to severely prune a tree of all but its largest branches. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)