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Word entry · 11 letters

pomegranate

Best crossword clue

"Red-seeded fruit"

11 letters · collected on this word page

11 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/Part of speech nounSorted aaeegmnoprtStarts with PEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

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

Word origin

Displaced earlier Old English æppelcyrnel (literally: apple + kernel), itself a calque of the Latin term. The adjective is derived from the noun.

Used in a sentence

  • Here the blue fig with luſcious juice o'erflows, / With deeper red the full pomegranate glows, / The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, / And verdant olives flouriſh round the year.
  • In the walls of the cells, elevated on seven steps of Parian marble, various statutes stood in niches, and those walls were ornamented with the pomegranate consecrated to Isis.
  • Another goblet! quick! and stir / Pomegranate juice and drops of myrrh / And calamus therein!

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01Red-seeded fruit11 letters

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