pomegranate tree
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- noun
- /ˈpɑːmɪɡrænɪt triː/
:
granado
- In the spring, the pomegranate tree blooms with vibrant flowers before bearing fruit.
Examples
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Mom liked pomegranate trees.
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"Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree."
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He stopped the car and carried David to some shade in a grove of pomegranate trees.
Blog text (10) -
Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree.
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"Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree.
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On the wall, the rays of light were shaking the shadowy boughs of the pomegranate tree.
Fiction book (1996) -
At the end of the alley of pomegranate trees, Rebekah and her mother approached the single room buried under lavish flowers.
Fiction book (2002) -
Even our familiar garden, with the pomegranate tree and the village I had built out of matchboxes underneath it, was not ours at night; it belonged to the curfew and to evil.
Fiction book (1997) -
The pomegranate tree in our backyard produces beautiful red fruit each summer.
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The pomegranate tree thrives in warm climates and requires plenty of sunlight to grow.
Synonyms
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A small tree or bush that makes round red fruits with many seeds
A small tree or shrub that produces large red fruit with many edible seeds
A group of flowering plants that includes the pomegranate
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'pomegranate' names the fruit/plant and 'tree' names the plant type, so together they denote a tree that produces pomegranates. This noun–noun compound follows a transparent, cross-linguistically common pattern and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
The name pomegranate tree comes from old words meaning 'seeded apple' because the fruit looks like an apple full of seeds. So the name simply means the tree that grows the pomegranate with many seeds.