Definitions
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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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Red-seeded fruit”11 letters
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