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Definition of Pomegranate tree

1. Noun. Shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pomegranate Tree

Literary usage of Pomegranate tree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"The pomegranate-tree (Púnica granatum) derives its name from the Latin pomum .... pomegranatetree ..."

2. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"Double-flowering Red-flowered Pomegranate-tree, distinguished by its red double ... The pomegranate-tree, which partakes of the antiquity of the vine, ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1831)
"If it were the bark of a pomegranate-tree culti- vated in this country, it is easy to account for its want of efficacy ; for, to possess its medicinal ..."

4. The North American Medical and Surgical Journal by Hugh L Hodge, Franklin Bache, Charles D Meigs, Benjamin Hornor Coates, R La Roche (1831)
"If it were the hark of a pomegranate tree cultivated in this country (England) H is easy to account for its want of efficacy; for, to possess its medicinal ..."

5. The plants of the Bible, trees and shrubs by John Hutton Balfour (1866)
"|HE pomegranate-tree and its fruit are noticed in Scripture under the Hebrew name of Rimmon. ... Saul tarried under a pomegranate tree (i Sam. xiv. ..."

6. The Vegetable Alkaloids: With Particular Reference to Their Chemical by Amé Pictet (1904)
"THE ALKALOIDS OF THE POMEGRANATE-TREE. THE bark of the pomegranate-tree (Punica granatum L., family of the ..."

7. The Land and the Book, Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and by William McClure Thomson (1883)
"The Pomegranate-tree in Migron.—The Earthquake, the " trembling of God."—Defeat and Flight of the Philistines. ..."

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