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Webster 1913 Edition


Pome

Pome

,
Noun.
[L.
pomum
a fruit: cf. F.
pomme
apple. Cf.
Pomade
.]
1.
(Bot.)
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.
2.
(R. C. Ch.)
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.

Pome

,
Verb.
I.
[Cf. F.
pommer
. See
Pome
,
Noun.
]
To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Pome

POME

,
Noun.
[L. pomum.] In botany, a pulpy pericarp without valves, containing a capsule or core, as the apple, pear, &c.

POME

,
Verb.
I.
To grow to a head, or form a head in growing. [Not used.]

Definition 2024


pome

pome

English

A pyracantha bush bearing pomes

Noun

pome (plural pomes)

  1. A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.
  2. A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.

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Verb

pome (third-person singular simple present pomes, present participle poming, simple past and past participle pomed)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, interpreted as a feminine singular.

Noun

pome f (plural pomis)

  1. fruit

Novial

Noun

pome (plural pomes)

  1. apple

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin poma.

Noun

pome f (oblique plural pomes, nominative singular pome, nominative plural pomes)

  1. apple

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