PREFERRED TERM
Pomegranate
DEFINITION
- n. A borrowing from French "pome gernate" "pomme granade". From the Middle English "pomegarned" "pumgarnade", among others. The fruit of the tree Punica granatum, a large many-celled berry with a leathery yellow, orange, or red rind, a persistent calyx, and numerous seeds that are each surrounded by an acid-sweet pink or red pulp.
BROADER CONCEPT
ENTRY TERMS
- pomegranates
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
BELONGS TO GROUP
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Grenade
French
Melagrana
Italian
Granada
Spanish
granadas
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/761
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