The word amputation is derived from the Latin amputare, " to cut away ", from ambi-(" about ", " around ") and putare (" to prune ").

The word " putamen " is from Latin, referring to that which " falls off in pruning ", from " puto ", meaning " to prune ".

* Damassine is a prune ( the fruit of the Damassinier tree ) brandy from the Jura Mountains of Switzerland

This is due to " prune " having negative connotations connected with elderly people suffering from constipation .< ref >

The main cultivar grown in the U. S. is the Improved French prune.

Prunes are used frequently in Tzimmes, a traditional Jewish dish in which the principal ingredient is diced or sliced carrots ; in the Nordic prune kisel, eaten with rice pudding in the Christmas dinner ; and in the traditional Norwegian dessert fruit soup.

The fruit is a fleshy drupe ( a " prune ") with a single relatively large, hard-coated seed ( a " stone ").

Once a mistletoe plant has established itself on a branch, the usual treatment is to prune away the branch if it is a small one.

To obtain a better understanding of how to prune plants properly, it is useful to have some underlying knowledge of how pruning works, and how it affects the way in which plants grow.

The fruit of a prune tree is smaller than a plum.

The most common type is the " Santa Rosa " prune.

A plum is larger, rounder, and more reddish than a prune.

) A common algorithm for collision detection of bounding boxes is sweep and prune.

A sweet pastry dough is rolled out, cut into circles, and traditionally filled with prune or mun, a sweet poppy seed filling, then wrapped up into a triangular shape with the filling either hidden or showing.

The only effective treatment for plants already infected is to prune off the affected branches and remove them from the area.

Ben seeing Junior is upset gives him his most precious possession, a dried prune that belonged to his grandfather ( he thought it resembled Roosevelt ), telling him it signifies a bond between two people.

In his drawer is the prune carefully wrapped up and through a series of pictures he drew, he depicts Flo and Big Ben as deformed monsters with hostile surroundings, but depicted Ben as a happy person in a pleasant background, revealing that he really did value him as a father figure all along.

Orange juice, prune juice, and milk containing fiber should not be consumed, nor should liquids dyed red, purple, orange, or sometimes brown ; however, cola is allowed.

One feature of these low-tile situations is that it is very hard to safely prune the list of legal moves.

Agen is the " capital of the prune ", a local produce sold as a sweet ( stuffed with prune purée ) or as an after-dinner delight ( prunes soaked in Armagnac – a type of brandy ).

This “ knowledge base ” is used both to search for possible chemical structures that match the input data, and to learn new “ general rules ” that help prune searches.

Remove any lower shoots and prune between three and five of the best placed shoots by half to an upwards or outwards facing bud to form what will become the tree's main structural branches.

In response the church has decided to ' prune to grow ', reducing ministry provision plans from 1234 to 1000 funded posts ( 1075 established FTE posts, of which 75 will be vacant at any one time ) supported by a variety of voluntary and part-time ministries.

The presence of plum pox can also enhance the effects of other endemic viruses infecting various species of the genus Prunus, such as prune dwarf virus, Prunus necrotic ( browning ) ringspot virus, and apple chlorotic ( yellowing ) leaf spot virus, resulting in still greater economic losses.

Almost all of the land within Cupertino's present-day boundaries was covered by prune, plum, apricot, and cherry orchards.

Fruits change character completely when dried: the plum becomes a prune, the grape a raisin ; figs and dates are also transformed in new, different products, that can be eaten as they are or else after rehydration.

* Mirabelle plum, fruits of the Mirabelle prune tree

Aluminium stilts are commonly used by fruit farmers in California to prune and harvest their peach, plum, and apricot trees.

The mirabelle plum, also known as the mirabelle prune ( Prunus domestica subsp.

syriaca ), is the edible drupaceous fruit of the mirabelle prune tree, a cultivar of the plum tree of the genus Prunus.

Lekvár is usually made of fruits like apricot, peach, strawberry, plum, prune, raspberry, cherry or sour cherry, but apples, and less usually, green whole walnuts, muscadine grapes or figs may also be used.

Fresh prunes ( Prunus domestica ) Dried prune

The woodlands of the region are home to many fruit trees, shrubs, and vines that have proved valuable for human use and selective breeding, including pomegranate ( Punica granatum ), wild grapes Vitis sylvestris, fig ( Ficus carica ), wild apple ( Malus turkmenorum ), wild pear ( Pyrus boissieriana ), wild cherries ( Prunus spp., also called Cerasus microcarpa, C. erythrocarpa, C. blinovskii ), wild prune ( Prunus divaricata ), almonds ( Amygdalus communis = Prunus dulcis, and A. scoparia = Prunus scoparia ), and hawthorns ( Crataegus spp.

In Asia, fresh guava slices are often dipped in preserved prune powder or salt.

Dried prune marketers in the USA have, in recent years, begun marketing their product as " dried plums ".

* some fruits and fruit juices ( including prune juice, plums, berries, bananas, and the insides of apples and pears )

Source: L. Burbank fruit tree catalog and prior prune orchardist.

The reds from the left bank are full bodied, rich in tannins while young, and are characterized by their aromas of prune, undergrowth, chocolate and ripe black fruit.

Dried fruit, a selection of Phoenix dactylifera # Dates | dates, apricot s, Common fig | figs, prune s and raisin s

Nellie Harris wasn't old, she was ancient -- a tiny shriveled woman with a face like a tan prune.

He disappointed the crowd somewhat by calling the revolution a chance to continue the work he started 20 years earlier and prune out what was wrong with Communism.

Prunes and prune juice are often used to help regulate the functioning of the digestive system.

Due to popular perception ( in the U. S .) of prunes being used only for relief of constipation, and being the subject of related joking, many of today's distributors have stopped using the word " prune " on packaging labels.

Prunes also contain dietary fiber ( about 6 %, or 0. 06 g per gram of prune ).

Prunes and prune juice are thus common home remedies for constipation.

Females lost interest in prune males and became attracted to the untrimmed ones.

Shorten leaders by one third and prune laterals not required to extend the framework to four buds.

Recognizing the congressional determination, with wide public support, to cut defense costs ( including winding down the Vietnam War ), Laird worked hard to prune budgetary requests before they went to Congress, and acceded to additional cuts when they could be absorbed without serious harm to national security.

In young children, frequent urinary tract infections often herald prune belly syndrome, as they are normally uncommon.

" and she hurries to Fuchsia either to smack the abstracted girl in order to ease herself, or to bury the wrinkled prune of her face in Fuchsia's side.