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n. A deciduous shrub or small tree (Punica granatum) native to Asia and widely cultivated for its edible fruit.

n. The fruit of this tree, having a tough reddish rind, and containing many seeds, each enclosed in a juicy, mildly acidic, red pulp.

n. Any of several shrubs or small trees, of the genus Punica, bearing the fruit of the same name.

n. The fruit of these plants, about the size of an orange and having a red pulp containing many seeds and enclosed in a thick, hard, reddish skin.

n. The fruit of the tree Punica Granatum; also, the tree itself (see balaustine), which is native in the Orient, but is successfully cultivated in many warm countries, and as a house plant in colder climates. The fruit is as large as an orange, and has a hard rind containing many rather large seeds, each one separately covered with crimson, acid pulp.

n. A carved or embroidered ornament resembling a pomegranate.

n. The fruit of the tree Punica Granatum.

n. The tree, Punica Granatum, which produces the fruit pomegranate.

n. In Queensland, a small tree, Capparis nobilis, with some resemblance to the pomegranate.

n. shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit

n. large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind

"Auberville, in his magnificent work "L'Ornement des Tissus," is astonished to find the term pomegranate-pattern almost confined to these forms, since their central part is generally formed of a thistle-form."

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granatum    protopunica    Punica   

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