brunion
nounEtymology Borrowed from French brugnon.
1
A hybrid of a plum and a peach.
- But no sort of Brunions are in so much Esteem as their Peaches, because they do not quit their Stones.1724, Philip Miller, The Gardeners and Florists Dictionary, page 22:
- The eldest Fairy put her finger into her mouth and whistled three times, then cried, 'Apricots, peaches, nectarines, brunions, cherries,[…]1855, Marie-Catherine Aulnoy, Fairy Tales, page 453:
2
A nectarine