pomegranate: [14] The pomegranate is etymologically the ‘many-seeded apple’. The word’s ultimate ancestor was Latin mālum grānātum (mālum gave English malic ‘of apples’ [18], and grānātus was derived from grānum ‘seed’, source of English grain). In Vulgar Latin this became reduced to simply *grānāta, which passed into Old French as grenate (source of English grenade, so named because early grenades looked like pomegranates).
Before long pome ‘apple’ was added to the term, giving pome grenate – whence English pomegranate. Pome came from Latin pōmum ‘apple, fruit’, which also gave English pomade [16] (an ointment so called because the original version was apple-scented), pomander [15] (etymologically an ‘apple of amber’), pommel [14] (etymologically a ‘little fruit’), and pomology [19]. => garnet, grain, grenade, pomade, pomander, pommel
pomegranate (n.)
c. 1300, poumgarnet (a metathesized form), from Old French pome grenate (Modern French grenade) and directly from Medieval Latin pomum granatum, literally "apple with many seeds," from pome "apple; fruit" (see Pomona) + grenate "having grains," from Latin granata, fem. of granatus, from granum "grain" (see grain). The classical Latin name was malum granatum "seeded apple." Italian form is granata, Spanish is granada. The -gra- spelling restored in English early 15c.
例文
1. She was coloured like a pomegranate for richness.
彼女の顔はザクロのように赤く、ふっくらしていた。
2.If it is a female，it will have seeds as red as a pomegranate .
雌の場合、ザクロは一般的に真っ赤な子になる。dd> 漢英文学-現代散文から
3.The genetic background of seed hardness is very complicated in pomegranate .
ザクロ種子硬度の遺伝的背景は非常に複雑である.
4.Her lips were as red and moist as pomegranate seed.
カリックスタワーの顔はほてって汗だらけだ。
5.I actually didn 't know they were pomegranate seeds in the photo concept.