# pomegranate

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/ · frequency rank #31,710

## Definitions
1. 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.
2. The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.
3. A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.
4. A person of British descent, especially one who has (recently) immigrated to Australia; a pom, a pommy.

## Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English pome-garnet, pome-garnete, pome garnate, pome granat, pome-granate (“pomegranate fruit; pomegranate tree; pomegranate seeds (?)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman pome gernate, pomme gernette, Middle French pomme granade, pomme granate, pomme grenade, and Old French pome grenade, pome grenate, pomme grenate [and other forms] (modern French grenade), probably from Italian pomogranato, pomo granato (though apparently first attested later), and then either:
* from Italian pomo (“fruit, pome; apple”) + Latin (mālum) grānātum, (mālo)grānātum (“pomegranate”); or
* directly from Medieval Latin pōmum garnātum, pōmum grānātum (“pomegranate”), from Latin pōmum (“fruit; fruit tree”) + grānātum (“pomegranate”). Pōmum is possibly ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”) (in the sense of being picked off a plant), from *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *h₁em- (“to distribute; to take”); while grānātum is derived from grānātus (“having many grains or seeds”), from grānum (“grain, seed, small kernel”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- (“to mature, grow old”) + *-nós (suffix forming verbal adjectives)) + -ātus (suffix forming adjectives indicating the possession of a quality or thing from nouns).
The adjective is derived from the noun.

## Common misspellings (16)
`opmegranate`, `pmoegranate`, `poemgranate`, `pomegarnate`, `pomeggranate`, `pomegraante`, `pomegranaet`, `pomegranatte`, `pomegrannate`, `pomegrantae`, `pomegrnaate`, `pomegrranate`, `pomerganate`, `pomgeranate`, `pommegranate`, `ppomegranate`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pomegranate