• Prunus

    Origin

    From Latin prūnus.

    Full definition of prunus

    Noun

    prunus

    (uncountable)
    1. (ceramics) A type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the , .
      • At the second-floor booth of Vintage Interiors II, a store in Alexandria, Va. , ...
        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.”
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