dried plum
A plum.
weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
"We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"
To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
The word prune comes from the Old French prune, which was borrowed from Ancient Greek for "plum." It originally referred to the fruit before taking on its modern meaning of cutting back branches.