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pome::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | false fruit |
| Type of | fruit |
| Has types | apple, pear, quince |
Examples of pome
pome
The subfamily is the Pomoidae, so these fruits are often called pome fruits.
From the sfgate.com
The quince is a pome fruit related to apples and pears, native to the Transcaucasus area.
From the latimes.com
Anaerobic treatment of POME has been practiced in Malaysia and Indonesia.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Its young berry-like pome fruits are dark-red when young, but become dark-purple when ripe.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Although not widely made in modern times, various other pome fruits can produce palatable drinks.
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My Dad always told me that, but I can't rmember which pome it was.
From the guardian.co.uk
Among the pome fruits, some cross-species grafting is possible.
From the sfgate.com
It is home to a range of citrus, pome and stone fruit, as well as grapes, olives, passionfruit and loquats.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
It is a pome, hard and astringent, and not to be eaten raw.
From the ocregister.com
- A fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
- In botany, a pome (after the Latin word for fruit: pu014Dmum) is a type of fruit produced by flowering plants in the subtribe Malinae of the family Rosaceae.
- A type of fruit in which the edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels
- A fleshy fruit resulting from the development of an inferior ovary and a fleshy receptacle, like an apple, pear or quince.
- A fleshy false fruit, formed from an inferior ovary, in which the hypanthium has enlarged to enclose the true fruit, as in Malaceae. Fig.18 C.
- A type of fruit with flesh derived from an enlarged receptacle growing around an ovary; apples and pears are examples of pomes
- In Rosaceae, a fleshy, indehiscent fruit, such as an apple or pear; derived from a compound, inferior ovary (represented as 2 5 papery-walled, radiating segments alternating with fleshy material) and surrounding hypanthium (represented as outer fleshy material and skin). (see berry, drupe) (e.g. ...
- An apple-like fruit. Also includes pear, quince and similar fruits in rose family with seeds within membrane embedded in soft fleshy fruit.
- A fleshy fruit with a central seed bearing core, e.g., apple
