pome

About 0.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.

   The best-known example of a pome is the apple.

2. noun A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
3. noun Alternative form of pomme (“green roundel in heraldry”).
4. verb To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.

Similar words

false fruit pseudofruit pseudocarp simple fruit aggregate fruit fruit collective fruit follicle polysperm pomiculture

Often followed by

fruits fruit and of is to in was that

Word family

pomes