Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fleshy fruit, such as an apple, pear, or quince, having several seed chambers and an outer fleshy part largely derived from the hypanthium. Also called false fruit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
- n. A ball or globe; the kingly globe, mound, or ball of dominion.
- n. 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.
- To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
Wiktionary
- n. A type of fruit in which the edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.
- v. obsolete, intransitive To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (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.
- n. (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.
- v. obsolete To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
Etymologies
- Latin pomum. For the verb, compare French pommer. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, apple, fruit, from Vulgar Latin *pōma, from neuter pl. of Late Latin pōmum, from Latin, fruit. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“They are a kind of fruit known as a pome from the Latin for “fruit”.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“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?
“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
“So Ern, blushing again, read out his "pome", at top speed.”
“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".”
“It's the only 'pome' I ever executed and I felt like executing Lafe when I heard him reciting it," she explained later.”
“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.”
“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
“I made a 'pome' yesterday, when I was helping Hannah wash, and as”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pome’.
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I can haz cheezeburgerisms
dis iz y u cant spelcaturday, haz, habn't, derp, derpy, kitteh, teh, cyoot, mai, baw, kai, ai and 382 more...
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ENVI - water protection
population equiva..., absorptive proper..., abstraction rate, abundance, acaricide, accidental pollution, admixture, adsorption, agglomeration, algicide, alkalinity, angiosperms and 398 more...
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morph...
A hodgepodge, jumble, jambalaya, *gallimaufry, circus and tent revival of plant anatomy and morphology terms and phrases - its a big tent, and no tickets are required.
*array, collecti...naked bud, leaf blade, brochidodromous, serrate, cork cambium, rhizomatous, flower stalk, deciduous sepal, petal, whorl, nectar gland, stamen and 1348 more...
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intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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Transhumanity
Cribbed from Transhumanist Terminology at aleph.se, which has definitions, and is itself based on the Lextropicon.
adhocracy, aeonomics, a-life, agoric system, ai, ai-complete, aleph, algernon, amortalist, arachniography, arch-anarchy, arcology and 333 more...
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Mib's Words
east overshoe, east bumfuck, turd, umpteenth, ammies, shithead, fatty, for pete's sake, crud, rigamarole, creep, bedlington and 33 more...
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The Bardo of Waking Life
Exploring new wor(l)ds
simulacrum, gourmand, cataclysm, rill, pellucid, peremptory, pome, sluiced, viscid, compages, patois, voltaic and 2 more...
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beardofthemonth's Words
pome, scalawag, strumpet, harlot, wastrel, hobo, ascertain, nonplussed, widdershins, swell, film, monocle and 15 more...
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Fruity words
All fruits are not created equal. Nor are all words for fruits. These are my favorite fruit words and not necessarily my favorite fruits!
pomegranate, pome, pomelo, kiwi, rambutan, tomato, breadfruit, durian, tangerine, raspberry, huckleberry, elderberry and 5 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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bunch of fruits
I like fruit. And I like the names of fruits – well, of these fruits at least.
persimmon, kaki, pomegranate, apple, pear, peach, fig, date, grapefruit, orange, banana, japanese persimmon and 39 more...
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apples
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gangerh Sensational wordcraft, Asativum, sensational. Apr 27, 2008
asativum Verse not written by pros. Apr 27, 2008