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brunion en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from French brugnon.

Meanings

1. A hybrid of a plum and a peach.
   • The eldest Fairy put her finger into her mouth and whistled three times, then cried, 'Apricots, peaches, nectarines, brunions, cherries,[…] 1855, Marie-Catherine Aulnoy, Fairy Tales, page 453:
   • But no sort of Brunions are in so much Esteem as their Peaches, because they do not quit their Stones. 1724, Philip Miller, The Gardeners and Florists Dictionary, page 22:
2. A nectarine

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