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pomegranate

/pom-gran-it, pom-i-, puhm-/US // ˈpɒmˌgræn ɪt, ˈpɒm ɪ-, ˈpʌm- //UK // (ˈpɒmɪˌɡrænɪt, ˈpɒmˌɡrænɪt) //

石榴,石榴花,榴莲

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.
    • : the shrub or small tree, Punica granatum, that bears it, native to southwestern Asia but widely cultivated in warm regions.

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Examples

  • Without speaking a word of Ukrainian, I somehow landed myself a bag of pomegranates harvested from the garden of a fellow passenger.

  • Gin and white vermouth shaken with salted pomegranate syrup, dappled with rosewater.

  • The real risk here—the proverbial and theological snake in the grass—is the pomegranate-flavored sports drink.

  • Persephone snacked on pomegranate seeds in Hades and now our gas bills rocket in January.

  • Historians hypothesize that the fruit in the Garden of Eden was a pomegranate, not an apple.

  • This still is from a video called “Pomegranate”, in the new solo show by Ori Gersht at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

  • Her eyes smile, her mouth is a pomegranate endowed with sensibility, with a sensibility which seems quite fresh.

  • The earth swallows up the sanguinary ruins of his manhood, and in their place comes up a pomegranate tree in full bearing.

  • In this legend, we see one son born without a human mother, and a second without any other father than Rimmon, or a pomegranate.

  • A grand treat was a purple or crimson pomegranate given by a kindly neighbour.

  • Balaustion—wild pomegranate flower—has in her something of the Greek; but she has also an ineffable touch of our modern time.