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pomegranate
[ pom-gran-it, pom-i-, puhm- ]
noun
- a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.
- the shrub or small tree, Punica granatum, that bears it, native to southwestern Asia but widely cultivated in warm regions.
pomegranate
/ ˈpɒmˌɡrænɪt; ˈpɒmɪˌɡrænɪt /
noun
- an Asian shrub or small tree, Punica granatum, cultivated in semitropical regions for its edible fruit: family Punicaceae
- the many-chambered globular fruit of this tree, which has tough reddish rind, juicy red pulp, and many seeds
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Example Sentences
Gin and white vermouth shaken with salted pomegranate syrup, dappled with rosewater.
The real risk here—the proverbial and theological snake in the grass—is the pomegranate-flavored sports drink.
Persephone snacked on pomegranate seeds in Hades and now our gas bills rocket in January.
Historians hypothesize that the fruit in the Garden of Eden was a pomegranate, not an apple.
This still is from a video called “Pomegranate”, in the new solo show by Ori Gersht at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Her eyes smile, her mouth is a pomegranate endowed with sensibility, with a sensibility which seems quite fresh.
The earth swallows up the sanguinary ruins of his manhood, and in their place comes up a pomegranate tree in full bearing.
In this legend, we see one son born without a human mother, and a second without any other father than Rimmon, or a pomegranate.
A grand treat was a purple or crimson pomegranate given by a kindly neighbour.
Balaustion—wild pomegranate flower—has in her something of the Greek; but she has also an ineffable touch of our modern time.
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