Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, bearing, or characteristic of pomes, especially apples.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of or resembling pomace.
- Of, pertaining to, or consisting of apples.
- Having the character of a pome; belonging to the Pomeæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like an apple or pear; producing pomes.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a suborder (Pomeæ) of rosaceous plants, which includes the true thorn trees, the quinces, service berries, medlars, and loquats, as well as the apples, pears, crabs, etc.
- adjective Like pomace.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Resembling or relating to a
pome .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree.
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Anyone with any common sense knows that a pomaceous fruit is not the same as a great ape.
Lara Friedman: Israel's New Boycott Law and U.S. Law: Like Apples and Orangutans Lara Friedman 2011
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The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree.
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In one garden pomegranates, a pomaceous tree, and mulberries, whose fruit is now ripe but quite devoid of flavour, occurred.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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The Punjabi name of the pomaceous one is _Sai-oo_, of the cherry or plum _Aloochah_.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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A near relative, a large brown = Coccus =, infests pomaceous trees, and is especially partial to the Pyracantha, which it often kills outright.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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And, again, the malformation is not without significance in regard to the relationship between the drupaceous and the pomaceous subdivisions of _Rosaceæ_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The orchards here consist of cherry, and a pomaceous tree which also is cultivated at Shikarpore, and on the skirts occasionally of willows, which, were they unmutilated, would be handsome trees.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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[563] An illustration of this latter nature in the case of a cherry, which was surmounted by the calyx lobes, precisely as in the case of a pomaceous fruit, has been given at p. 424, _adnot.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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For instance, no wild pomaceous fruit is, I believe, so large as our apples, and no doubt they could be got much larger if flavour, etc., were entirely neglected.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
fbharjo commented on the word pomaceous
applelacious - a mountain chain near the banana belt (Poconos)?
March 13, 2013