pomegranate

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Feminine, and with juice the color of blood, the pomegranate is a symbol for the missing women in Juarez.

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  1. noun A deciduous shrub or small tree (Punica granatum) native to Asia and widely cultivated for its edible fruit.
  2. noun The fruit of this tree, having a tough reddish rind, and containing many seeds, each enclosed in a juicy, mildly acidic, red pulp.

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  1. Middle English pome granate, from Old French pome grenate : pome, apple; see pome + grenate, having many seeds (from Latin grānātus, from grānum, grain, seed; see gr̥ə-no- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Formerly also pomegranet; from Middle English pomegarnet, pomgarnet, pomgarnat, pomegarnade, pomgarnad, from Old French pome grenate, pome de grenate, pun de grenat, pomme de grenade = Italian pomogranato, from Middle Latin pomum granatum, in L. malum granatum, pomegranate, literally apple with many seeds (also called in L. malum Punicum, Punic apple): L. pomum, fruit, apple (see pome); granatum, neuter of granatus, with many seeds (granatum, later F. grenade = Spanish granada, pomegranate), from granum, seed, grain: see grain, grenade, garnet.
 

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/ˈpəmgrænət/
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