pomegranate
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.
Other meanings
The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.
A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.
A kind of
- fruit tree
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "pome-garnet".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pomegranate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.