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pomegranate

noun
/ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/UK/ˈpɑmɪˌɡɹænɪt/US

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English pome-garnet, pome-garnete, pome garnate, pome granat, pome-granate (“pomegranate fruit; pomegranate tree; pomegranate seeds (?)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman pome gernate, pomme gernette, Middle French pomme granade, pomme granate, pomme grenade, and Old French pome grenade, pome grenate, pomme grenate [and other forms] (modern French grenade), probably from Italian pomogranato, pomo granato (though apparently first attested later), and then either: * from Italian pomo (“fruit, pome; apple”) + Latin (mālum) grānātum, (mālo)grānātum (“pomegranate”); or * directly from Medieval Latin pōmum garnātum, pōmum grānātum (“pomegranate”), from Latin pōmum (“fruit; fruit tree”) + grānātum (“pomegranate”). Pōmum is possibly ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”) (in the sense of being picked off a plant), from *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *h₁em- (“to distribute; to take”); while grānātum is derived from grānātus (“having many grains or seeds”), from grānum (“grain, seed, small kernel”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- (“to mature, grow old”) + *-nós (suffix forming verbal adjectives)) + -ātus (suffix forming adjectives indicating the possession of a quality or thing from nouns). The adjective is derived from the noun.

  1. derived from *ǵerh₂-✻ — “to mature, grow old”
  2. derived from *h₂po-h₁ém-os✻ — “taken off”
  3. derived from pōmum — “fruit; fruit tree”
  4. derived from pōmum garnātum
  5. derived from mālum grānātum
  6. derived from pomo — “fruit, pome; apple”
  7. derived from pomogranato
  8. derived from pome grenade
  9. derived from pomme granade
  10. derived from pome gernate
  11. inherited from pome-garnet

Definitions

  1. The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish…

    The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.

    • Here the blue fig with luſcious juice o'erflows, / With deeper red the full pomegranate glows, / The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, / And verdant olives flouriſh round the year.
    • In the walls of the cells, elevated on seven steps of Parian marble, various statutes stood in niches, and those walls were ornamented with the pomegranate consecrated to Isis.
    • Another goblet! quick! and stir / Pomegranate juice and drops of myrrh / And calamus therein!

  2. The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.

    • On her fair cheek’s unfading hue, / The young pomegranate’s blossoms strew / Their bloom in blushes ever new— […]

  3. A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A person of British descent, especially one who has (recently) immigrated to Australia

      A person of British descent, especially one who has (recently) immigrated to Australia; a pom, a pommy.

    2. Of a colour like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit

      Of a colour like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit; dark red or orange-red.

      • Many people would think Miss Wilcox, standing there in her blue merino dress and pomegranate ribbon, a very agreeable woman.

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Derived

pom, pomegranateade, pomegranatelike, pomegranate-like, pomegranate melon, pomegranate molasses, pomegranate water, pommy, pomrita, pomtini, Socotra pomegranate

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA