Crossword clues for pruned
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prune \Prune\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pruned; p. pr. & vb. n. Pruning.] [OE. proine, probably fr. F. provigner to lay down vine stocks for propagation; hence, probably, the meaning, to cut away superfluous shoots. See Provine.]
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To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.
--Thackeray.Taking into consideration how they [laws] are to be pruned and reformed.
--Bacon.Our delightful task To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers.
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To cut off or cut out, as useless parts.
Horace will our superfluous branches prune.
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To preen; to prepare; to dress.
--Spenser.His royal bird Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: prune)
WordNet
adj. (of plants or trees) shaped by having superfluous branches or shoots trimmed back or cut off; "abundant fruit from properly pruned vines and fruit trees"
Usage examples of "pruned".
The landscaping was from another age: a couple of four-story cocoapalms, indifferently pruned bird of paradise grown ragged, agapanthus, andcalla lilies surrounding a flat, brown lawn.
Stories were told about how vegetables had once wept to Mani, as they were about to be cut, and palm trees complained when they were about to be pruned.
Then she sat back and admired the pachysandra she had planted and pruned over the years, and beyond that, the impatiens, and beyond that, the lilies.
They were perfect in their forms, yes, but more importantly, they had pruned and purged themselves so that only the purest inner qualities remained.
And now, three thousand years later, like a bonsai tree that had been pruned and repruned into its final, twisted shape, he was fixed in himself, was stunted and constrained and nearly dead.
He cut two slim poles from a scrawny tree, pruned away the branches, and started to hack at the stems of scrubby gray-green plants growing low to the ground.
No matter what the tree is, the poplar of France, or the brookside willow or oak coppice of England, or the chestnuts or mulberries of Italy, all are interesting when being pruned, or when pruned just lately.
Again Ede pruned his programs, coded them as pure signal, and in a flash of tachyons infinitely faster than light, made the almost instantaneous unfolding of his self to smaller lobes of his brain farther out among the stars.
Other narrower walks and drives invited one to investigate lily ponds and cleverly pruned fruit trees or quiet, shady walks.
But the towers make me think my appletrees should have been better pruned.
Spanish-speaking folks bred critters as cleverly as French-speaking folks pruned grape vines for wine.
They were like overgrown houseplants, with clean leaves, the trunks wrapped in tape, and the limbs neatly pruned.
The old trees about it were all kept neatly trimmed, the brush pruned away and cleared up, and a smooth sweet sward, lawnlike, surrounded it, such as children love to skip and scramble over, and older children rest at length upon, in pairs, talking over their sweet silly affections.
What this means is that the selection of just which synapses become stabilized and which are pruned back during the development of the visual system is partly determined by experience.
This product is known as the Cashier, an anthropomorphous growth, watered by religious doctrine, trained up in fear of the guillotine, pruned by vice, to flourish on a third floor with an estimable wife by his side and an uninteresting family.