Crossword clues for pome
pome
- Juicy fruit
- Apple, e.g
- Apple, for one
- Pear or apple, e.g
- Pear, e.g
- Pear, for one
- Apple-family fruit
- Word from the Latin for "fruit"
- Fruit such as a pear
- Fleshy fruit, as a pear
- Five-seeded fruit
- Apple, quince or pear
- Apple or pear e.g
- Apple or loquat, e.g. (Tribute #2)
- Apple category
- Any fruit like an apple or pear
- Fleshy fruit, as an apple or pear
- Apple or pear, e.g
- Quince, e.g.
- Apple or quince e.g
- Apple, to a botanist
- Quince, for one
- Apple, e.g.
- Pear or quince, e.g
- A fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
- Quince or pear
- Quince, e.g
- Fruit of the apple family
- Applelike fruit
- Apple or pear, e.g.
- They believe time served initially limits crime
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pome \Pome\, v. i. [Cf. F. pommer. See Pome, n.] To grow to a head, or form a head in growing. [Obs.]
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. Ch.) A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
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).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels. 2 A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service. vb. (context obsolete intransitive English) To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
WordNet
n. a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part [syn: false fruit]
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.
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.