different between pomegranate vs granate

English

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 (m?lum) gr?n?tum, (m?lo)gr?n?tum (“pomegranate”); or
• directly from Medieval Latin p?mum garn?tum, p?mum gr?n?tum (“pomegranate”), from Latin p?mum (“fruit; fruit tree”) + gr?n?tum (“pomegranate”). P?mum is possibly ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h?po-h?ém-os (“taken off”) (in the sense of being picked off a plant), from *h?epó (“away; off”) + *h?em- (“to distribute; to take”); while gr?n?tum is derived from gr?n?tus (“having many grains or seeds”), from gr?num (“grain, seed, small kernel”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“to mature, grow old”) + *-nós (suffix forming verbal adjectives)) + -?tus (suffix forming adjectives indicating the possession of a quality or thing from nouns).

The adjective is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?m?(?)??æn?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?m????æn?t/, /?p?m????æn?t/, /?p?m???æn?t/
• Hyphenation: po?me?gra?nate

Noun

pomegranate (plural pomegranates)

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.
   • 2001, Vern L. Bullough (editor), Herbal Contraceptives and Abortifacients, Encyclopedia of Birth Control, page 125

     The seeds of the pomegranate, for example, were widely used to prevent conception in the ancient world and they are still used in India, East Africa, and the Pacific.

   • 2005, Payam Nabarz, The Mysteries of Mithras: The Pagan Belief That Shaped the Christian World, page 79,

     Persephone is taken to the underworld by Hades to be his queen. She willingly eats a seed of pomegranate and is forced to spend every winter with her husband in the land of the dead, symbolizing the yearly decay and revival of vegetation. […] In Judaism, the number of seeds in a pomegranate is said to be the exact number of mitzvah, or spiritual duties required of a devout Jew.

   • 2006, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Cooking, College Version, page 683,

     The pomegranate is a subtropical fruit about the size of a large apple.

   • 2011, David Joachim, Fire It Up: 40 Recipes for Grilling Everything, page 310,

     The grilled leeks are then drizzled with a gorgeous, ruby-red pomegranate vinaigrette.

2. The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.
   • 2005, Fahiem E. El-Borai, Larry W. Duncan, 12: Nematode Parasites of Subtropical and Tropical Fruit Tree Crops, M. Luc, Richard A. Sikora, J. Bridge (editors), Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical and Tropical Agriculture, 2nd Edition, page 481,

     The pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) originates from Persia, and is cultivated in western and central Asia and in the Mediterranean region; it is also grown commercially in California. […] The predominant parasitic nematodes affecting pomegranate are the root knot nematodes, M.^{[Meloidogyne]} incognita, M. acrita and M. javanica (McSorley, 1981).

   • 2005, Payam Nabarz, The Mysteries of Mithras: The Pagan Belief That Shaped the Christian World, page 79,

     The pomegranate is the tree of knowledge in some myths. In others, it is linked with the underworld, […].

   • 2008, M. N. V. Prasad, Trace Elements as Contaminants and Nutrients, page 225,

     In this experiment, the average Zn concentration of leaf in four pomegranate cultivars was between 12.0 and 19.8mg/kg in the control (Fig. 2a).

3. A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.

4. (Australia, colloquial, derogatory, obsolete) A person of British descent, especially one who has (recently) immigrated to Australia; a pom, a pommy.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• grenade
• grenadine (“cordial or drink made from pomegranates”)
• Appendix:Colors

Adjective

pomegranate (comparative more pomegranate, superlative most pomegranate)

1. Of a colour like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit; dark red or orange-red.

Translations

References

Further reading

• pomegranate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pomegranate (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Punica granatum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Punica granatum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pomegranate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• magnoperate

English

Noun

granate (plural granates)

1. Archaic form of garnet.

Anagrams

• tanager, tangare

Afrikaans

Noun

granate

1. plural of granaat

Italian

Noun

granate f

1. plural of granata

Anagrams

• anterga, argenta, garante, regnata, tangerà

Latin

Adjective

gr?n?te

1. vocative masculine singular of gr?n?tus

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ra?nate]

Noun

granate f

1. indefinite plural of granat?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of granat?

Spanish

Etymology

From Occitan granat, from Medieval Latin gr?n?tus. See English garnet.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gra?na?te

• IPA^(key): /??a?nate/, [??a?na.t?e]

Adjective

granate (plural granates)

1. garnet

Noun

granate m (plural granates)

1. (mineralogy) garnet
2. garnet (color)