ˈprünəs noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, plum tree, from Greek proumnē
: a genus of trees and shrubs (family Rosaceae) widely distributed in temperate regions that have usually serrate leaves often with glands along the petiole or at the base of the blade and have flowers usually in umbellate clusters or racemes which appear in spring and often before the leaves and are succeeded by smooth globose fruit often with a bloom on its surface — see almond , apricot , cherry , peach