Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The scientific study and cultivation of fruit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That department of knowledge which deals with fruits; that branch of gardening which embraces the cultivation of fruit-trees or fruit-bearing shrubs. Also pomalology.
- n. A treatise on fruits considered as esculents.
Wiktionary
- n. botany The study of pome fruit and of the cultivation of such fruit.
- n. botany The study of fruit in general and of the cultivation of fruit.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The science of fruits; a treatise on fruits; the cultivation of fruits and fruit trees.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruits
Etymologies
- From Latin pomum ("fruit") and -ology. (Wiktionary)
- Latin pōmum, fruit + -logy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A major Ward 6 concern, he said, is the likely sale by the UI Foundation of the 160-acre Pell Farm, also known as the pomology tract.”
“The Pell Farm, which is also called the pomology research center, is where researchers with the UI's College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences 'Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences have conducted fruit research.”
“The science of growing apples is called pomology, from the French word for apple, pomme.”
“By the end of the 19th century, Bunker says, nurseries offered hundreds of the more than 10,000 named American varieties, some of which became popular exports to Europe (which was doing intense pomology work of its own, particularly France).”
“For a while, I kept a list of apple facts as I learned them, because what I remembered about my father was that he at least had a passing interest in pomology, enough of one to take me out to an orchard for the day.”
“He speaks Spanish, recites latin without the book, he hits the bullseye, he's a pool shark, he knows his art history, he picks the locks, he's into pomology, he completes the Times crossword.”
Supernatural: The Curious Case of Dean Winchester - Pink Raygun.com
“Poring through old pomology texts for the names of varieties that were renowned for their flavor, he then spends months or years in search of farmers growing these delicious survivors.”
“The USDA commissioned watercolor artists to go into rural America and paint portraits of the best specimens of the pomology (fruit).”
“Later on he attended university earning a bachelor's degree, majoring in pomology the science of fruit from Cornell, and later on was awarded a master's degree from Pennsylvania State University and a doctorate from Purdue University.”
“Indeed, it is more in the domain of pomology: the art and science of cultivating fruit trees.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pomology’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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•Public List: Pommelions and Papermills
Started on pommelion--a place for all those words that feature P, then M, then L inside them. Somewhere.
pommelion, papermill, pimple, pemoline, pall mall, pell-mell, peppermill, paleomammalogy, philomelian, pummel, pimpernel, pimpmobile and 32 more...
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knack
know-how, art, hang, bent, flair, touch, method, nose, genius, gift, faculty, instinct and 14 more...
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career advisor
interesting -ologies, vocations, etc.
Please cite your chosen career if it doesn't have a weirdnet entry.vexillology, eschatology, pomology, phrenology, astacology, balneology, dactology, mycology, selenology, rhinology, hippology, somnology and 43 more...
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pomi-, pomo-
fruit; apple
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Unusual -ologies
morology, tidology, aerology, tyrology, orology, barology, tocology, doorology, ology, battology, dittology, cacology and 244 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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technology, acarology, aceology, acology, adenology, aedoeology, aerobiology, aerolithology, aerology, agriology, agrobiology, agrology and 850 more...
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monovocalic with 'o' but ONLY if I like them :-)
potoroo, woolloomoolloo, polo, booboo, morocco, pomology, mofongo, bloodroot, foolproof, bonobo, oboe, colocolo and 20 more...
Tweets
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bilby Pom pom pom pom pom pom pom, pom pom. Sep 8, 2008
trivet The study of fruit. Mar 6, 2007