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a fruit that makes you work for every ruby, and earns the labor
means A round, hard-skinned fruit packed with hundreds of juicy, jewel-like seeds (arils) wrapped in tart-sweet pulp, native to the Middle East and now grown across warm climates.
from From Old French 'pome grenate' — literally 'seedy apple' — which came from Latin: 'pomum' (apple, or more loosely any fruit) plus 'granatum' (full of grains or seeds), from 'granum,' a grain or seed. So the name is a quiet inventory of what's inside: an apple stuffed with seeds. The same Latin 'granatum' gave the grenade its name, soldiers reportedly seeing the seed-spilling fruit in the spherical, packed-tight bomb — and the deep red of the seeds lent its name to the gemstone garnet too.
- seed count
- averages around 600 arils per fruit
- ancient ID
- likely the true forbidden fruit of Eden
- underworld deal
- trapped Persephone with just six seeds
- name origin
- Latin for seeded apple
- grenade source
- the weapon was named after it
punica granatum — the scientific name for the pomegranate tree, native to iran and cultivated across the mediterranean since ancient times
california pomegranate — grown commercially in kern county, california, which produces over 99% of u.s. pomegranates
wonderful pomegranate — the dominant cultivar accounting for ~95% of california's pomegranate crop, developed in 1896