POME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pome mean? 

• POME (noun)
  The noun POME has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: POME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

false fruit; pome

Hypernyms ("pome" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pome"):

apple (fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh)

pear (sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties)

quince (aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves)

 Context examples 

I made a 'pome' yesterday, when I was helping Hannah wash, and as Father likes my silly little things, I put it in to amuse him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)