prune

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   A plum.
2. 2
   The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
3. 3
   Something wrinkly like a prune.
4. 4
   An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.

Verb

1. 1
   To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
2. 2
   To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
3. 3
   To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
4. 4
   To remove (something unnecessary) for the sake of cutting down or shortening that which it was previously part of.
5. 5
   To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
6. 6
   to trim the feathers with the beak
7. 7
   To preen; to prepare; to dress.