pomegranate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.

   “Here the blue fig with luſcious juice o'erflows, / With deeper red the full pomegranate glows, / The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, / And verdant olives flouriſh round the year.”

2. isim The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.

   “On her fair cheek’s unfading hue, / The young pomegranate’s blossoms strew / Their bloom in blushes ever new— […]”

3. isim A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.
4. isim A person of British descent, especially one who has (recently) immigrated to Australia; a pom, a pommy.
5. sıfat Of a colour like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit; dark red or orange-red.

   “Many people would think Miss Wilcox, standing there in her blue merino dress and pomegranate ribbon, a very agreeable woman.”