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Meaning of prunus | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.

uncountable

Equivalents

Čeština slivoň
Français Prunus

Examples

“[…] 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.””

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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