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Grunion vs Brunion - What's the difference?

grunion | brunion |

As nouns the difference between grunion and brunion

is that grunion is either of two small fish, of the genus genus: Leuresthes, found along the coast of Mexico and southern California, that spawn in the wet sand at certain high tides while brunion is a hybrid of a plum and a peach.

grunion

English

Noun

(wikipedia grunion) (en noun)
  • Either of two small fish, of the genus , found along the coast of Mexico and southern California, that spawn in the wet sand at certain high tides.

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    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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