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Bunion vs Brunion - What's the difference?

bunion | brunion |

As nouns the difference between bunion and brunion

is that bunion is (pathology) a bump or bulge on the first joint of the big toe caused by the swelling of a sac of fluid under the skin while brunion is a hybrid of a plum and a peach.

bunion

English

Alternative forms

* * (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pathology) A bump or bulge on the first joint of the big toe caused by the swelling of a sac of fluid under the skin.

    • brunion

    English

    (wikipedia brunion)

    Noun

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

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    * (Nectarine)