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pomona
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Pomona " is a folksong originating from Manchester . It has many similarities with a song called Lamorna , which is popular in Cornwall. Here is a medley of a song called Fancy, The Pride of The Home and The Way Down to Pomona by Celinda Twitchell Olson ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Roman goddess of fruit, from Latin pomum "apple; fruit," of uncertain origin. "Possibly from *po-emo- 'taken off, picked'; *po-omo- or *pe-omo- are also conceivable" [de Vaan]. Or perhaps borrowed from a lost Mediterranean language.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pomona \Po*mo"na\, n. [L., from pomum fruit.] (Class. Myth.) The goddess of fruits and fruit trees.
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 149473 Housing Units (2000): 39598 Land area (2000): 22.840225 sq. miles (59.155909 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 22.840225 sq. miles (59.155909 sq. km) FIPS code: 58072 Located within: ...
Usage examples of pomona.
Syrinx and Pomona had picked fresh angel-trumpets from the garden to be put into vases beside the bed.
Exley Construction will build it, in Pomona, California, and the opening date will be April 1953.
Joaquin was running his '29 Model A with the Mercury engine, and the driver from Pomona was behind the wheel of a chopped and channelled Willys.
We reached the long slope south of San Dimas that goes up to a ridge and drops down into Pomona.
One of the guys in the band, a redheaded trombone player from Pomona who read philosophy started to tell me about his religion.
And then come three urgent pings in a row, bright splotch of red on the screen, big new plume of smoke must be rising out of the main volcanic cone sitting up there on top of the Orange Freeway where the intersection with the Pomona Freeway used to be.