Pomegranate

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pome=gran=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

Pomegranate, n. [OE. pomgarnet, OF. pome de grenate, F. grenade, L. pomum a fruit + granatus grained, having many grains or seeds. See Pome, and Garnet, Grain.].

•  The fruit of the tree Punica Granatum; also, the tree itself (see Balaustine), which is native in the Orient, but is successfully cultivated in many warm countries, and as a house plant in colder climates. The fruit is as large as an orange, and has a hard rind containing many rather large seeds, each one separately covered with crimson, acid pulp.  [1913 Webster]
•  A carved or embroidered ornament resembling a pomegranate.  Ex. xxviii. 33.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Pomegranate, n.
1 a an orange-sized fruit with a tough golden-orange outer skin containing many seeds in a red pulp. b the tree bearing this fruit, Punica granatum, native to N. Africa and W. Asia.
2 an ornamental representation of a pomegranate.

Etymology

ME f. OF pome grenate (as POME, L granatum having many seeds f. granum seed)