Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not pruned; not lopped or trimmed.
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- adjective Not having been
pruned .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The physical perfection of the apple has no impact on the taste, and while supermarkets have trained us to expect homogeneous and unblemished fruit, this is not how they grow, especially if unpruned, unthinned and unsprayed, as many family apple trees will be.
Gardens: Apple glut Naomi Slade 2010
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Daylight could see that it had been a stiff struggle, and that wild nature showed fresh signs of winning -- chaparral that had invaded the clearings; patches and parts of patches of vineyard, unpruned, grassgrown, and abandoned; and everywhere old stake-and-rider fences vainly striving to remain intact.
Chapter IX 2010
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Ps ... never mind grammar ..... unpruned thoughts are better said without the constraints of formality!
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So the trees grew unpruned, the weeds rose higher and the fruit fell like rain.
Gardens: Apple glut Naomi Slade 2010
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If unpruned, the Knock Out can easily grow to more than three or four feet tall and wide.
New crop of hybrid plants demonstrate beauty of ingenuity Joel M. Lerner 2011
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Apples fell to the ground from unpruned trees in old orchards, and asparagus tips reared up like bracken in the undergrowth of dilapidated walled kitchen gardens.
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The practice of insurance companies attempting to recoup damages is commonplace -- whether from the person who rear-ended their customer's car or from the neighbor whose unpruned, dead tree branches crashed through a roof.
Students may have to pay for sprinkler damage at Va. school 2010
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The practice of insurance companies attempting to recoup damages is commonplace -- whether from the person who rear-ended their customer's car or from the neighbor whose unpruned, dead tree branches crashed through a roof.
Students may have to pay for sprinkler damage at Va. school 2010
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We can only sensibly explore etymology once we've done this first step otherwise we'll lose ourselves in a duststorm of unpruned possibilities.
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The practice of insurance companies attempting to recoup damages is commonplace -- whether from the person who rear-ended their customer's car or from the neighbor whose unpruned, dead tree branches crashed through a roof.
Students may have to pay for sprinkler damage at Va. school 2010
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