prunus
nounEtymology Borrowed from Latin prūnus. Doublet of prune and plum.
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Ceramics, Chemistry, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.
- […] a caption by two 1740s Meissen plates ($27,500 for the pair) notes that they belonged to Saxon royals and have a pattern often mislabeled as a crouching lion but “in reality a tiger prowling amongst prunus.”2009 January 23, Eve M. Kahn, “Conversation-Piece Buys, Maybe. Intriguing Histories, Definitely.”, in New York Times: