pomegranate
pronunciation
How to pronounce pomegranate in British English:
UK [ˈpɒmɪgrænɪt]
How to pronounce pomegranate in American English:
US [ˈpɑmɪgrænɪt]
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- Noun:
- shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit
- large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind
Word Origin
- pomegranate
- pomegranate: [14] The pomegranate is etymologically the ‘many-seeded apple’. The word’s ultimate ancestor was Latin mālum grānātum (mālum gave English malic ‘of apples’ [18], and grānātus was derived from grānum ‘seed’, source of English grain). In Vulgar Latin this became reduced to simply *grānāta, which passed into Old French as grenate (source of English grenade, so named because early grenades looked like pomegranates).Before long pome ‘apple’ was added to the term, giving pome grenate – whence English pomegranate. Pome came from Latin pōmum ‘apple, fruit’, which also gave English pomade [16] (an ointment so called because the original version was apple-scented), pomander [15] (etymologically an ‘apple of amber’), pommel [14] (etymologically a ‘little fruit’), and pomology [19].=> garnet, grain, grenade, pomade, pomander, pommel
- pomegranate (n.)
- c. 1300, poumgarnet (a metathesized form), from Old French pome grenate (Modern French grenade) and directly from Medieval Latin pomum granatum, literally "apple with many seeds," from pome "apple; fruit" (see Pomona) + grenate "having grains," from Latin granata, fem. of granatus, from granum "grain" (see grain). The classical Latin name was malum granatum "seeded apple." Italian form is granata, Spanish is granada. The -gra- spelling restored in English early 15c.
Example
- 1. And I was a good little pomegranate .
- 2. This is a pomegranate and orange orchard .
- 3. Pomegranate juice : appears to lower blood pressure and loaded with antioxidants .
- 4. Mechanistic studies would also help identify the active ingredients in the pomegranate and their direct mode of action .
- 5. So you may never know whether spending a fortune on pomegranate juice or the like is worth it .