Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fleshy fruit, such as an apple, pear, or quince, having several seed chambers and an outer fleshy part largely derived from the hypanthium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
- noun An apple; a fruit of the apple kind; specifically, in botany, a fleshy fruit composed of the thickened walls of the adnate calyx embracing one or more carpels, as the apple, pear, etc.
- noun A ball or globe; the kingly globe, mound, or ball of dominion.
- noun In the Western Church, in medieval times, a small globe of silver or other metal filled with hot water and placed on the altar during mass in cold weather, so that the priest might keep his fingers from becoming numb, and thus avoid danger of accident to the elements.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.
- noun (R. C. Ch.) A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
- intransitive verb obsolete To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of
fruit in which the edibleflesh arises from the swollenbase of theflower and not from thecarpels . - verb obsolete, intransitive To
grow to ahead , or form a head in growing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Even though Europeans were slow to warm up to pomegranates (they eschewed fruit and vegetables for meat in their diets), Middle French gave us the word pome garnete, which means seeded apple.
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They are a kind of fruit known as a pome from the Latin for “fruit”.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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They are a kind of fruit known as a pome from the Latin for “fruit”.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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March 25, 2008 at 3:29 pm and yew started a tradishun- bring us bak a pome!
Nom Nom Turn Nom Nom - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I am not m'self much of a poet, which is why I don't call my pome a poem.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: October 2006 Archives 2006
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So Ern, blushing again, read out his "pome", at top speed.
The Mystery of Banshee Towers Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1961
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"Ern, tell Fatty your poem," said Bets, suddenly, seeing a piece of paper sticking out of Ern's pocket, and feeling certain that Ern had managed to find time to write down his "pome".
The Mystery of Banshee Towers Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1961
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"It's the only 'pome' I ever executed and I felt like executing Lafe when I heard him reciting it," she explained later.
Peggy-Alone Mary Agnes Byrne
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The student proposes to procure the coffee mill to assist him in grinding out his "pome"; the tennis player wishes she had a hatchet to chop up a long word which has fallen to her lot, so that she can put it in proper metre; but Mr. Short (6 ft. 2 in.), with watch in hand, calls "Time", and then "Silence", as pencils race over papers as if on a wager.
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"J.W." is coming out again. & flows out in a "pome" wh I hope you will see also.
Letter from Cornelia Phillips Spencer to Charles Phillips, September 8, 1869 1869
asativum commented on the word pome
Verse not written by pros.
April 27, 2008
gangerh commented on the word pome
Sensational wordcraft, Asativum, sensational.
April 27, 2008