Definitions for Prunella

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Prunella pru·nel·la

Spelling: [proo-nel-uh]

IPA: /pruˈnɛl ə/

Prunella is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 228 anagrams from letters in Prunella (aellnpru).

Definitions for Prunella

noun

1. a strong, lightweight worsted constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of women's and children's apparel.
2. a smooth-faced fabric made of mixed fibers or wool, formerly used in the manufacture of women's dresses and of robes for clerics, scholars, and lawyers.

Origin of Prunella

1650-60; perhaps special use of prunelle, from the dark color of the cloth

Examples for Prunella

prunella is dyed either in piece or yarn state and is hand finished.

The latter character is not nearly so marked in the prunella as in the scutellaria.

At the first glance, the Scutellaria has no resemblance to the prunella.

"So that is why you have such a wonderful look on your face," said Princess prunella.

There was yellow clay on the heels and a spattering of yellow clay on the prunella.

The simplest twills are the so-called "doeskin" and "prunella."

prunella, I noticed, was of a much deeper purple there than at home.

Does the prunella belong to the family of Labiat, like the bugle?

All over the wide fields of earth grows the prunella or self-heal.

The prunella, or self-heal, in the grass here, was an old acquaintance.