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pome
n.
apple; device for warming the hands
Pome
In botany, a
pome (after the
Latin word for
fruit:
pomum) is a type of fruit produced by
flowering plants in the subtribe
Malinae of the family
Rosaceae. Pome's origin of the word came from the Middle English (fruit), from Anglo-French
pume,
pomme (apple, fruit) and, ultimately from Late Latin
pomum. First use, 15th century.
pome
Noun
1. a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
(synonym) false fruit
(hypernym) fruit
(hyponym) apple
Pome
(n.)
To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
(n.)
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.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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