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Apple category
Answer for the clue "Apple category ", 4 letters:
pome
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Word definitions for pome in dictionaries
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 .
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. ...
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.
What I like about Kipling is that his pomes is right off th' bat, like me con-versations with you, me boy.