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pomegranate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pomegranate \Pome"gran`ate\ (?; 277), n. [OE. pomgarnet, OF. pome de grenate, F. grenade, L. pomum a fruit + granatus grained, having many grains or seeds. See Pome, and Garnet, Grain.]
(Bot.) The fruit of the tree Punica Granatum; also, the tree itself (see Balaustine), which is native in the Orient, but is successfully cultivated in many warm countries, and as a house plant in colder climates. The fruit is as large as an orange, and has a hard rind containing many rather large seeds, each one separately covered with crimson, acid pulp.
A carved or embroidered ornament resembling a pomegranate.
--Ex. xxviii. 3
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, poumgarnet (a metathesized form), from Old French pome grenate (Modern French grenade) and directly from Medieval Latin pomum granatum, literally "apple with many seeds," from pome "apple; fruit" (see Pomona) + grenate "having grains," from Latin granata, fem. of granatus, from granum "grain" (see grain). The classical Latin name was malum granatum "seeded apple." Italian form is granata, Spanish is granada. The -gra- spelling restored in English early 15c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A fruit-bearing shrub or small tree, ''Punica granatum''. 2 The fruit of ''Punica granatum'', about the size of an orange and having a red pulp containing many seeds and enclosed in a thick, hard, reddish skin.
WordNet
n. shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit [syn: pomegranate tree, Punica granatum]
large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind
Wikipedia
The pomegranate , botanical name Punica granatum, is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree in the family Lythraceae that grows between tall.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the fruit is typically in season from September to February, and in the Southern Hemisphere from March to May. As intact arils or juice, pomegranates are used in cooking, baking, meal garnishes, juice blends, smoothies, and alcoholic beverages, such as cocktails and wine.
The pomegranate originated in the region of modern-day Iran and has been cultivated since ancient times throughout the Mediterranean region and northern India. It was introduced into Spanish America in the late 16th century and California by Spanish settlers in 1769.
Today, it is widely cultivated throughout the Middle East and Caucasus region, north Africa and tropical Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, the drier parts of southeast Asia, and parts of the Mediterranean Basin. It is also cultivated in parts of California and Arizona. In recent years, it has become more common in the commercial markets of Europe and the Western Hemisphere.
A pomegranate is a fruit-bearing shrub or tree.
Pomegranate may also refer to:
- Pomegranate (album), a 2008 album by Astronautalis
- Pomegranates (album), a 2015 album by Nicolas Jaar
- Pomegranate (phone), a fictional mobile phone created on behalf of the Government of Nova Scotia
- Pomegranate, California, U.S., a former settlement and mining camp
- Pomegranates (band), an American indie rock band
- The Pomegranate (journal), an academic journal covering the field of Pagan studies
- Pomegranate (publisher), a California based art book and print publisher
- Pomegranate Press, a vanity press run by Kathryn Leigh Scott
Pomegranate is the third album from alternative hip-hop artist Astronautalis. It was released on September 23, 2008. It gained favourable reviews from numerous music blogs.
The Pomegranate is a mobile phone created as a marketing campaign on behalf of the Government of Nova Scotia. The website advertising the product has comical features such as a harmonica, and a coffee maker, features seen in fully or partially later phones such as a video projector, live voice translator, and shaving razor, among many other standard features that 2008 leading mobile phones have: upon clicking "I've seen enough" or "Release date", an array of information about Nova Scotia and its culture is displayed. The campaign, which included online advertising on sites in New England, is an attempt to attract interest in Nova Scotia and establish it as a desirable place to live and do business.
The Pomegranate phone is the latest campaign from Communications Nova Scotia's Come to Life initiative, the place branding program of the Government of Nova Scotia. Communications Nova Scotia has been criticized by some for spending $175,000 on the ad campaign, though the website received more than 3 million visits from 195 countries/territories since its launch on September 30, 2008, and they are considering it to be very successful.
Pomegranate Communications is a publishing and printing company formerly based in Petaluma, California, having moved to Portland, Oregon in 2013. The company, founded by Thomas F. Burke, began by publishing works of psychedelic art from San Francisco in the 1960s. It distributed posters for concerts at Avalon Ballroom and The Fillmore.
In its current form, Pomegranate is best described as a museum publisher, collaborating with institutions such as the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, the British Library, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the Sierra Club, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It is the licensee for artists M. C. Escher, Edward Gorey, Charley Harper, Wolf Kahn, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Gustave Baumann.
Usage examples of "pomegranate".
Then there were citrons and wild pomegranates and a score of other arborescent plants, all testifying to the fertility of this plateau of Central Africa.
I took my niece for a sail in the bay, and after we had enjoyed one of those delicious evenings which I think can be found nowhere else-- sailing on a mirror silvered by the moon, over which float the odours of the jasmine, the orange-blossom, the pomegranates, the aloes, and all the scented flowers which grow along the coasts--we returned to our lodging, and I asked Annette what had become of Marcoline.
Pomegranates overlapped persimmons, peaches and cherries intertwined, a lacy forest of citrus--tangerines, lemons, grapefruits, and oranges--gradually gave way to thick meandering shrubbery, dappled with sweet-skinned kumquats and guavas that Grandsarah made into jelly each fall.
There were extensive plantations of sago and date palms, orange and pomegranate and banana, and various kinds of groundnuts.
A tree with dark-yellowish leaves, taller than most timber trees on Earth, bore at the end of drooping twigs large dark-red fruits--fruits with a rind something like that of a pomegranate, save for the colour and hardness, and about the size of a shaddock or melon.
Almost all the flowers, the herbs, and the fruits, that grow in our European gardens, are of foreign extraction, which, in many cases, is betrayed even by their names: the apple was a native of Italy, and when the Romans had tasted the richer flavor of the apricot, the peach, the pomegranate, the citron, and the orange, they contented themselves with applying to all these new fruits the common denomination of apple, discriminating them from each other by the additional epithet of their country.
There was chicken cooked in pomegranate juice, and lamb cubed and marinated and broiled in a manner called kabab, and a rose-flavored sharbat cold with snow, and a billowy, trembling confection like a fluffed-up nougat, made of fine white flour, cream, honey, daintily flavored with oil of pistachio, and called a balesh.
There were garnet-red cherries, peridot grapes, apples like great rubies streaked with gold and amber, amethyst blueberries, strawberries glowing like pink charcoal, yellow pears of topaz, lucid gooseberries of translucent green quartz, quinces still on their twigs, melons, pomegranates, polished damsons, figs like blushing drops of jade.
They bring you the news and a punnet of pomegranates - then half kill your slaves, demolish your garden, and batter any visitors?
This childish quarreling among my people must end or Quar will take advantage of it and devour us one by one as so many seeds in a pomegranate!
A decoction made by boiling two or three ounces of freshly powdered pomegranate bark in a pint of water was used by the ancients, and is now highly recommended as a remedy.
Titus mumbled, joining in the under-the-table scrum to catch tumbling apples, pomegranates and fir cones that cascaded from their table.
Pomegranates jingling like sheep bells, the priest carries the shellful of water to the sacred enclosure.
One ragged boy darted past the spearmen with a half-rotten pomegranate in one hand, but when he saw Areo Hotah in his path, with longaxe at the ready, he let the fruit fall unthrown and beat a quick retreat.
The pomegranates he brought back would be ready tomorrow at the earliest, Veronique declared, and not a minute before.