What does "pomegranate" mean?
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.
Pomegranate
/ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/ adj, noun, slang
adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: 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.
- Grammar: pomegranate is listed as adj, noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: pomegranate tree, berry, ebony, fertility symbol.
- Usage evidence: Did you buy the pomegranate juice?
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 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."
- 2 large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind wordnet
- 3 The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.
"I finish'd this day with a walke in the greate garden of the Thuilleries, which is rarely contrived for privacy, shade, or company, by groves, plantations of tall trees, especialy that in yᵉ middle, being of elmes, another of mulberys. There is a labyrinth of cypresse, noble hedges of pomegranates, fountaines, fishponds, and an aviary."
- 4 shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit wordnet
- 5 A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.
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- 6 A person of British descent, especially one who has (recently) immigrated to Australia; a pom, a pommy. Australia, colloquial, derogatory, obsolete
Adjective
- 1 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."
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"Did you buy the pomegranate juice?"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "pomegranate"?
Common synonyms include: pomegranate tree, berry, ebony, fertility symbol, fruit, granada.
How do you use "pomegranate" in a sentence?
Did you buy the pomegranate juice?
How do you pronounce "pomegranate"?
Pronounced /ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/.
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.