different between decoration vs prunus

English

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Etymology

From Latin decoratio: compare French décoration.Morphologically decorate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?k???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

decoration (countable and uncountable, plural decorations)

1. The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
2. Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation.
3. Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
4. (biochemistry, immunology) The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host

Related terms

• decorate

Translations

References

• (etymology) decoration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• carotenoid, co-ordinate, coordinate, coronadite, coördinate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?nus. Doublet of prune and plum.

Noun

prunus (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

• nupurs, run ups, run-ups, runs up, runups, upruns

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (proún?), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pru?.nus/, [?p?u?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pru.nus/, [?p?u?nus]

Noun

pr?nus f (genitive pr?n?); second declension

1. A plum tree.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• pr?nniceus
• pr?num

Descendants

References

• prunus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• prunus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• prunus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette