Usually means: Dried plums, rich in fiber.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word prunes:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. prunes: Merriam-Webster
  2. prunes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prunes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Prune's, Prunes, prunes: Wordnik
  5. prunes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Prunes: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  7. prunes: Wiktionary
  8. prunes: Dictionary.com
  9. prunes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Prunes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. prunes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prunes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prunes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prunes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. prunes: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

(Note: See prune as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prune)

noun:  (obsolete) A plum.
noun:  The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
noun:  (figurative) Something wrinkly like a prune.
noun:  (slang) An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
verb:  (transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
verb:  (transitive) To remove (something unnecessary) for the sake of cutting down or shortening that which it was previously part of.
verb:  (transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
verb:  (obsolete) To preen; to prepare; to dress.
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