pollard vs prune

pollard and prune both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pollard	Yes	No	Yes	No
prune	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, prune is a hypernym of pollard; that is, prune is a word with a broader meaning than pollard:

Other hypernyms of pollard include clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, snip, trim.

pollard (noun)	prune (noun)
a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed	dried plum
a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage

pollard (verb)	prune (verb)
convert into a pollard	weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
	cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of