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means A hand tool with sharp, overlapping blades used for cutting stems, small branches, and twigs on plants and shrubs.

from 'Prune' traces back through French 'proignier' to Latin roots tied to cutting back, trimming the dead or overgrown so the living can thrive — the same sense survives in gardens today. 'Shears' is older still, from Old English 'sceran,' meaning to cut or shave, a cousin of 'shear' as in sheep-shearing. Put the two together and you get a name that's really just a job description: the cutting tool for the cutting-back task.