Meaning

4 senses
  1. The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.

    Granatapfel, Grenadine

    грана́тgranát

    грана́тhranát

    large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind

  2. The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.

    Granatapfel, Grenadine

    грана́тgranát, грана́товое де́ревоgranátovoje dérevo

    грана́тhranát, грана́тове де́ревоhranátove dérevo

    shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit

  3. A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.

  4. (Australia, colloquial, derogatory, obsolete)A person of British descent, especially one who has (recently) immigrated to Australia; a pom, a pommy.

Examples

56 sentences
  1. I like pomegranates.

    Я люблю гранати. — deniko

  2. My neighbors have a pomegranate tree.

  3. Tom told me where I could buy pomegranates.

  4. When was the last time you ate a pomegranate?

  5. The pomegranate is one of the oldest known fruits.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
fruit of the Punica granatum:
Punica granatum shrub or small tree:
Русский
By meaning 2
fruit of the Punica granatum:
Punica granatum shrub or small tree:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
fruit of the Punica granatum:

Origin

The noun is derived from Middle English pome-garnet, pome-garnete, pome garnate, pome gran

The noun is derived from Middle English pome-garnet, pome-garnete, pome garnate, pome granat, pome-granate (“pomegranate fruit; pomegranate tree; pomegranate seeds (?)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman pome gernate, pomme gernette, Middle French pomme granade, pomme granate, pomme grenade, and Old French pome grenade, pome grenate, pomme grenate [and other forms] (modern French grenade), probably from Italian pomogranato, pomo granato (though apparently first attested later), and then either:

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Forms

plural: pomegranates
Singularpomegranate
Pluralpomegranates

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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