pome

UK: /pəʊm/ US: (pōm)

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pome  (pōm), n. [Bot.]

1. Botany the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.

• Latin pōma, plural (taken as singular) of pōmum fruit
• Middle French
• Middle English 1350–1400

pome′like′, adj. 

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pome / pəʊm/ noun

1. the fleshy fruit of the apple and related plants, consisting of an enlarged receptacle enclosing the ovary and seeds

Etymology: 15th Century: from Old French, from Late Latin pōma apple, pl (assumed to be sing) of Latin pōmum apple