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POMEGRANATE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pomegranate" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("pomegranate" is a part of...):

pomegranate; pomegranate tree; Punica granatum (shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit

Synonyms:

pomegranate; pomegranate tree; Punica granatum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pomegranate" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "pomegranate"):

pomegranate (large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind)

Holonyms ("pomegranate" is a member of...):

genus Punica; Punica (coextensive with the family Punicaceae)

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