Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Pru·nus Pronunciation:
'prü-n&s Function:
noun : a genus of trees and shrubs (as cherries, plums, peaches, and the apricot) ofthe rose family (Rosaceae) that are widely distributed in temperate regions, that include many whose fruit are used for food, and that have usually serrate leaves often with glands along the petiole orat the base of the blade and flowers usually in umbellate clusters or racemes which appear in spring and often before the leaves and are succeeded by an often smooth globose fruit with a bloom on thesurface
