pru|nelle

pru|nelle
pru|nelle «proo NEHL», noun.
a small, yellow plum dried for the market, both skin and stone being removed.
[earlier prunella < obsolete Italian, a small kind of plum, (diminutive) < pruna plum < Vulgar Latin prūna; spelling influenced by French prunelle. Compare etym. under plum. (Cf.plum)]

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