Pomegranate

Quick meaning: Pomegranate is a noun meaning The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.

Meaning

The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.

More Meanings

1. A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.
2. Of a colour like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit; dark red or orange-red.
3. 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.
4. (Australia, colloquial, derogatory, obsolete) A person of British descent, especially one who has (recently) immigrated to Australia; a pom, a pommy.

Example Sentences

The pomegranate is a subtropical fruit about the size of a large apple.

The grilled leeks are then drizzled with a gorgeous, ruby-red pomegranate vinaigrette.

Another goblet! quick! and stir / Pomegranate juice and drops of myrrh / And calamus therein!

The seeds of the pomegranate, for example, were widely used to prevent conception in the ancient world and they are still used in India, East Africa, and the Pacific.

Word Forms

• pomegranates

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grenade, pomgramate, peewah, ponkan, pummelo, granatin.

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