Pome

[pәum]

解释:

(noun.) a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part.

整理:普雷斯利--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.

(n.) A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.

(n.) To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.

录入:昆西

解释:

n. an apple or a fruit like an apple: a small globe of silver or the like filled with hot water on which in cold weather the priest at mass warms his numbed hands.—n. Pom′ace the substance of apples or similar fruit: fish-scrap.—n.pl. Pomā′ce?/span> a suborder of Rosace—the apple family—also Pome′?/span>.—adj. Pomā′ceous relating to consisting of or resembling apples: like pomace.—ns. Pome′-cit′ron a variety of apple; Pom′eroy the king-apple; Pome′-wa′ter (Shak.) a sweet juicy apple; Pomicul′ture pomology.—adjs. Pomif′erous (bot.) pome-bearing applied to all plants producing the larger fruits as distinguished from berry-bearing; Pomolog′ical.—ns. Pomol′ogist; Pomol′ogy the science of garden-fruits.

编辑:史蒂夫