Other forms: pomegranates
A pomegranate is a leathery red fruit packed with jewel-like seeds. Cut a pomegranate, pomegranate seeds, pomegranate juice.
The way to get the seeds out is to halve it and hit the back with a spoon over a bowl, which works far better than picking. The juice stains permanently. In Greek myth, six seeds of one are why Persephone must return to the underworld each year.
1nounpomegranateA leathery red fruit packed with jewel-like seeds.
“She cut open a pomegranate, and the red juice stained her fingers.”
pomegranate is a fruit.
Old French pome grenate means seeded apple, from Latin pomum, a fruit, plus granatum, seeded.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁em-
Italian
pomogranato
Old French
pome grenade
Middle French
pomme granade
Anglo-Norman
pome gernate
Middle English
pome-garnet
English, today
pomegranate
Built from
The noun is derived from Middle English pome-garnet, pome-garnete, pome garnate, pome granat, pome-granate (“pomegranate fruit; pomegranate tree; pomegranate seeds (?)”)(Late Middle English) bamegarnade, (Middle English) pomegarnade, pome-garnade, pomegarnard, pome-garnard, pomegarnarde, pomegarnat, pome-garnat, pomegarnate, pome-garnate, pomegarned, pome-garned, pomegarnet, pomegarnete, pomegernade, pome-gernade, pomegernat, pome-gernat, pomegranarde, pome-granarde, pomegranate, pomegyrnat, pomgarnad, pomgarnade, pomgarnat, pomgarnate, pomgarnet, pomgarnett, pomgernad, pommegarnat, pommegarnet, pomogarnard, pongarnet, poomgarnet, poomgernett, poumbegarnet, poumegarnate, poumegarnet, poumegarnete, poumgarnet, poumgrene, poummegarnade, poungarnard, poungarned, poungarnet, poungarnett, pounkarnet, povmegarnat, powmbegarnet, powmegarnate, powmgarnet, powmgarnett, powngarned, powngarnet, poun-garnette, pumgarnade, pumgarnarde, pumgranat, pumgranate, pummegarnet, pungarnet, from Anglo-Norman pome gernate, pomme gernette, Middle French pomme granade, pomme granate, pomme grenade, and Old French pome grenade, pome grenate, pomme grenatepome gernete, pome granee, pume grenate (modern French grenade), probably from Italian pomogranato, pomo granato (though apparently first attested later), and then either:
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