unpruned
- adjective
- /ʌnˈpruːnd/
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sin podar
- Existing coffee plantings are typically old, low-density plantings that suffer from disease and insect problems, lack proper nutrition, are unpruned, and are heavily shaded.
- unpruned trees
- unpruned orchard
Examples
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Wildflowers grew abundantly around the unpruned apple trees that hadn't been trimmed in ages.
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In the sharpest possible contrast to this tangled, unpruned garden, each line of the chorale theme is delivered not once but twice, in strict canon, the second voice exactly duplicating the first voice but always two measures behind it.
Academic text (1990) -
Fire blight infects terminal leaves on an unpruned and uncovered apple tree.
Academic text (1997) -
Tree branches hung low overhead, and the grasping fingertips of unpruned grapevines reached out to stroke the side of the car as it passed.
Fiction book (1993) -
From the window next to this bed, I can see how they are untended now, unpruned, overtaken with burdocks, thistles, and matted grass.
Fiction book (1998) -
Ornamental iron fences are rusted, and ornamental trees stand unpruned, while hedges are overgrown.
Fiction book (1996) -
It was spring, and in a yard beyond a shabby garage, two plum trees—unpruned for a generation—were struggling into bloom.
Fiction book (2002) -
There is an unpruned pear orchard behind the dam, and as she pushed her way through the interlacing canes, thick with bees and blossoms, she made an agreement with herself that if she reached the end of the row without being stung, everything would change.
Fiction book (2002) -
The garden looked wild because the bushes were left unpruned for several years.
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During the summer, the backyard became overgrown with unpruned plants and tangled vines.
Synonyms
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3.9
Left in its natural state without being cut or trimmed
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3.8
Not cut and kept messy, like a beard or hedge
Not cut or trimmed and left as it is
Antonyms
How Pruned
Surface Forms
Morphology
unpruned = pruned (transparent) = un + prune + ed
A straightforward negation: 'un-' + 'pruned' meaning 'not trimmed'.
Etymology
Unpruned is formed from un- meaning 'not' and pruned from prune, which means 'to cut back' as gardeners do to bushes and trees. So, an unpruned plant has not been trimmed and may grow wild or tangled.