pomegranate

/ˌpɑm(ə)ˈgrænət/

/ˈpɒmɪgrænɪt/

Other forms: pomegranates

A pomegranate is a large, red-skinned fruit with delicious, juicy seeds. Eating a pomegranate can be messy.

You can probably find a pomegranate at a large grocery store in the produce section. It won't look very enticing, with its rough, leathery peel, but once you cut it open and pop out the ruby red seeds, you'll understand why it's many people's favorite fruit. The Latin root of pomegranate is pomum granatum, literally "apple with many seeds." Pome means "apple," and granatum comes from the Latin word for "seed or grain," granum.

Definitions of pomegranate

1. noun

   shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit
   synonyms: Punica granatum, pomegranate tree

   type of:

   fruit tree

   tree bearing edible fruit
2. noun

   large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind
   type of:

   edible fruit

   edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh