English words for 'The tree Prunus spinosa.'
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noun
- The tree Prunus spinosa.
- The small, astringent, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa).
- Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, Prunus alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit.
- a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
- wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh
- small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush
noun
- Prunus spinosa (sloe)
- A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
- Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
- A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
- An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
- Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
- Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
- A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
- Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
- Prunus americana (American plum)
- Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
- (vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
- Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
- Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
- (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
- Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
- Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
- any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
- any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
- a highly desirable position or assignment
adj
adv
verb
noun
- (botany) A fruit tree, Prunus mume.
- (botany) A fruit tree, Prunus salicina.
- yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
- evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
- small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor
noun
noun
- any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia
- (history, classical studies) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
- A light to moderate greenish yellow with a hint of red.
- (countable) A shrub or tree of the tribe Acacieae.
- A false acacia; robinia tree (Robinia pseudoacacia).
- (uncountable, pharmacy) The thickened or dried juice of several species in Acacieae, in particular Vachellia nilotica (syn. Acacia nilotica, Egyptian acacia).
- (loosely) Any of several related trees, such as a locust tree.
- (uncountable) Gum arabic; gum acacia.
noun
- A spiny Mediterranean tree, Ziziphus spina-christi.
- The plant Koeberlinia spinosa.
- A woodworking technique, used in tramp art, in which interlocking pieces are notched to intersect at right angles and form joints and self-supporting objects.
- Ellipsis of crown-of-thorns starfish
- (Christianity) The crown made of a thorny plant that Christ was forced to wear before his Crucifixion, in mocking reference to his alleged status as ‘king of the Jews’, or a representation of this.
- A spiny spurge, Euphorbia milii, native to Madagascar.
- a mock crown made of thorn branches that Roman soldiers placed on Jesus before the Crucifixion
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts
noun
- spiny tree having dark red edible fruits
- large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States
- East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu
- thorny Eurasian shrub with dry woody winged fruit
- The shrub Parkinsonia aculeata, native to the Western Hemisphere.
- The shrub Paliurus spina-christi, native to the Eastern Hemisphere.
noun
- spiny tree having dark red edible fruits
- A fruit-bearing tree, Ziziphus mauritiana.
- dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees
- chewy fruit-flavored jellied candy (sometimes medicated to soothe a sore throat)
- The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees.
- The fruit of this tree, fructus jujubae.
- (Canada, US) A type of candy; specific type varies by country.
- The fruit of this tree.
- A fruit-bearing tree, Ziziphus jujuba or Ziziphus zizyphus.
noun
- Psorothamnus spinosus, a spiny tree of the American desert.
- A common garden shrub of genus Cotinus.
- any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus
- greyish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers; locally important as source of a light-colored honey of excellent flavor
noun
- A tree of the species Quercus palustris.
- A tree of the species Quercus bicolor.
- A tree of the species Casuarina glauca.
- fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having deeply pinnatifid leaves that turn bright red in autumn; thrives in damp soil
- large deciduous oak of the eastern United States with a flaky bark and leaves that have fewer lobes than other white oaks; yields heavy strong wood used in construction; thrives in wet soil
- Australian leafless shrub resembling broom and having small yellow flowers
noun
- A Brazilian palm tree having waxy, fan-shaped leaves and toothed leafstalks, Copernicia prunifera.
- (uncountable) The hard wax obtained from the leaves of this plant and used especially in polishes.
- Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax
- hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes
noun
- any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches
- Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers
- Any of a number of trees and shrubs in the genus Zanthoxylum containing Sichuan pepper and the American Midwest invasive species.
- Papilio pelaus, a butterfly
- Orites excelsus, a plant native to Australia
- Aralia spinosa, a plant native to eastern North America
noun
- A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa
- (rare) A female chimpanzee.
- The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
- (tarot) The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
- The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the rook and the knight.
- a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
verb
noun
- The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
- A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
- A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
- (sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
- A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
- Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach
- a shade of pink tinged with yellow
- downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
adj
noun
- A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
- A figurine of a Chinese person with movable head that was popular in the 1950s. (Cf. bobblehead.)
- (sometimes derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
- A small, sweet citrus fruit.
- (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
- An orange colour.
- (ornithology) Ellipsis of mandarin duck.
- A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
- (informal, British) A senior civil servant.
- shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
- a high public official of imperial China
- a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
- a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
- any high government official or bureaucrat
adj
noun
- A small citrus tree, Citrus medica.
- The candied rind of the citron fruit.
- The fruit of a citron tree.
- A greenish yellow colour.
- large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind; usually preserved
- thorny evergreen small tree or shrub of India widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have thick warty rind
adj
noun
- The tree on which it grows.
- A tropical berry used to make allspice.
- A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
- plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
- fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked
verb
- plant with trees
- chase an animal up a tree
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
- (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
noun
- a figure that branches from a single root
- a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
noun
- purslane tree (Portulacaria afra)
- winter purslane, miner's lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)
- Honckenya peploides
- shoreline purslane (Sesuvium portulacastrum)
- common purslane or summer purslane (Portulaca oleracea), a widely-grown edible plant
- pink purslane (Claytonia sibirica)
- moss-rose purslane, moss rose (Portulaca grandiflora)
- Any of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants.
- Halimione portulacoides
- a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas
noun
- The tart, spiny, yellow-green fruit of this tree.
- Bermuda buttercup (Oxalis pes-caprae), an edible wood sorrel native to South Africa
- A small tropical evergreen tree, Annona muricata.
- (by extension) any wood sorrel, especially when used as food
- large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples
- small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit
noun
name
- A city, the county seat of Corson County, South Dakota.
- A minor city in Polk County, Minnesota.
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- A town in Washington County, Alabama.
- An unincorporated community in Liberty County, Georgia.
- An unincorporated community in Pike County, Missouri.
- A community in the Kenora District, Ontario, Canada.
- A town in Marion County, Florida.
- An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington.
noun
- The tree Prunus spinosa.
- The small, astringent, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa).
- Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, Prunus alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit.
- a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
- wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh
- small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush
noun
- Prunus spinosa (sloe)
- A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
- Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
- A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
- An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
- Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
- Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
- A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
- Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
- Prunus americana (American plum)
- Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
- (vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
- Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
- Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
- (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
- Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
- Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
- any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
- any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
- a highly desirable position or assignment
adj
adv
verb
noun
- (botany) A fruit tree, Prunus mume.
- (botany) A fruit tree, Prunus salicina.
- yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
- evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
- small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor
noun
noun
- any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia
- (history, classical studies) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
- A light to moderate greenish yellow with a hint of red.
- (countable) A shrub or tree of the tribe Acacieae.
- A false acacia; robinia tree (Robinia pseudoacacia).
- (uncountable, pharmacy) The thickened or dried juice of several species in Acacieae, in particular Vachellia nilotica (syn. Acacia nilotica, Egyptian acacia).
- (loosely) Any of several related trees, such as a locust tree.
- (uncountable) Gum arabic; gum acacia.
noun
- A spiny Mediterranean tree, Ziziphus spina-christi.
- The plant Koeberlinia spinosa.
- A woodworking technique, used in tramp art, in which interlocking pieces are notched to intersect at right angles and form joints and self-supporting objects.
- Ellipsis of crown-of-thorns starfish
- (Christianity) The crown made of a thorny plant that Christ was forced to wear before his Crucifixion, in mocking reference to his alleged status as ‘king of the Jews’, or a representation of this.
- A spiny spurge, Euphorbia milii, native to Madagascar.
- a mock crown made of thorn branches that Roman soldiers placed on Jesus before the Crucifixion
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts
noun
- spiny tree having dark red edible fruits
- large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States
- East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu
- thorny Eurasian shrub with dry woody winged fruit
- The shrub Parkinsonia aculeata, native to the Western Hemisphere.
- The shrub Paliurus spina-christi, native to the Eastern Hemisphere.
noun
- spiny tree having dark red edible fruits
- A fruit-bearing tree, Ziziphus mauritiana.
- dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees
- chewy fruit-flavored jellied candy (sometimes medicated to soothe a sore throat)
- The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees.
- The fruit of this tree, fructus jujubae.
- (Canada, US) A type of candy; specific type varies by country.
- The fruit of this tree.
- A fruit-bearing tree, Ziziphus jujuba or Ziziphus zizyphus.
noun
- Psorothamnus spinosus, a spiny tree of the American desert.
- A common garden shrub of genus Cotinus.
- any of several shrubs or shrubby trees of the genus Cotinus
- greyish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers; locally important as source of a light-colored honey of excellent flavor
noun
- A tree of the species Quercus palustris.
- A tree of the species Quercus bicolor.
- A tree of the species Casuarina glauca.
- fast-growing medium to large pyramidal deciduous tree of northeastern United States and southeastern Canada having deeply pinnatifid leaves that turn bright red in autumn; thrives in damp soil
- large deciduous oak of the eastern United States with a flaky bark and leaves that have fewer lobes than other white oaks; yields heavy strong wood used in construction; thrives in wet soil
- Australian leafless shrub resembling broom and having small yellow flowers
noun
- A Brazilian palm tree having waxy, fan-shaped leaves and toothed leafstalks, Copernicia prunifera.
- (uncountable) The hard wax obtained from the leaves of this plant and used especially in polishes.
- Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax
- hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes
noun
- any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches
- Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers
- Any of a number of trees and shrubs in the genus Zanthoxylum containing Sichuan pepper and the American Midwest invasive species.
- Papilio pelaus, a butterfly
- Orites excelsus, a plant native to Australia
- Aralia spinosa, a plant native to eastern North America
noun
- A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa
- (rare) A female chimpanzee.
- The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
- (tarot) The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
- The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the rook and the knight.
- a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
verb
noun
- The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
- A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
- A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
- (sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
- A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
- Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach
- a shade of pink tinged with yellow
- downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
adj
noun
- A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
- A figurine of a Chinese person with movable head that was popular in the 1950s. (Cf. bobblehead.)
- (sometimes derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
- A small, sweet citrus fruit.
- (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
- An orange colour.
- (ornithology) Ellipsis of mandarin duck.
- A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
- (informal, British) A senior civil servant.
- shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
- a high public official of imperial China
- a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
- a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
- any high government official or bureaucrat
adj
noun
- A small citrus tree, Citrus medica.
- The candied rind of the citron fruit.
- The fruit of a citron tree.
- A greenish yellow colour.
- large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind; usually preserved
- thorny evergreen small tree or shrub of India widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have thick warty rind
adj
noun
- The tree on which it grows.
- A tropical berry used to make allspice.
- A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
- plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
- fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked
noun
- purslane tree (Portulacaria afra)
- winter purslane, miner's lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)
- Honckenya peploides
- shoreline purslane (Sesuvium portulacastrum)
- common purslane or summer purslane (Portulaca oleracea), a widely-grown edible plant
- pink purslane (Claytonia sibirica)
- moss-rose purslane, moss rose (Portulaca grandiflora)
- Any of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants.
- Halimione portulacoides
- a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas
noun
- The tart, spiny, yellow-green fruit of this tree.
- Bermuda buttercup (Oxalis pes-caprae), an edible wood sorrel native to South Africa
- A small tropical evergreen tree, Annona muricata.
- (by extension) any wood sorrel, especially when used as food
- large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples
- small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit
noun
name
- A city, the county seat of Corson County, South Dakota.
- A minor city in Polk County, Minnesota.
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- A town in Washington County, Alabama.
- An unincorporated community in Liberty County, Georgia.
- An unincorporated community in Pike County, Missouri.
- A community in the Kenora District, Ontario, Canada.
- A town in Marion County, Florida.
- An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington.
verb
- plant with trees
- chase an animal up a tree
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
- (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
noun
- a figure that branches from a single root
- a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
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