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Five-seeded fruit
Answer for the clue "Five-seeded fruit ", 4 letters:
pome
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Word definitions for pome in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pome \Pome\, n. [L. pomum a fruit: cf. F. pomme apple. Cf. Pomade .] (Bot.) A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear. (R. C. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part [syn: false fruit ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In botany, a pome (after the Latin word for fruit : pōmum ) is a type of fruit produced by flowering plants in the subtribe Malinae of the family Rosaceae .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., of types of apples or apple-shaped objects, from Old French pome "apple" (12c., Modern French pomme ), from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *poma "apple," originally Latin pomus "fruit," later "apple" (see Pomona ).
Usage examples of pome.
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