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40 words match “POME”

POME n. 3 definitions
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.
POMEGRANATE n. 2 definitions
A carved or embroidered ornament resembling a pomegranate. Ex. xxviii. 33.
POMEL n.
A pommel. [Obs.] Chaucer.
POMELO n.
A variety of shaddock, called also grape fruit.
POMELY a.
Dappled. [Obs.] "Pomely gray." Chaucer.
POMERANIAN a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to Pomerania, a province of Prussia on the Baltic Sea. -- n.
POMEWATER n.
A kind of sweet, juicy apple. [Written also pomwater.] Shak.
POMEY n.
A figure supposed to resemble an apple; a roundel, -- always of a green color.
ANTHROPOMETRIC; ANTHROPOMETRICAL a.
Pertaining to anthropometry.
ANTHROPOMETRY n.
Measurement of the height and other dimensions of human beings, especially at different ages, or in different races, occupations, etc. Dunglison.
APOMECOMETER n.
An instrument for measuring the height of objects. Knight.
APOMECOMETRY n.
The art of measuring the distance of objects afar off. [Obs. or R.]
MELPOMENE n. 2 definitions
The Muse of tragedy.
MENOPOMA; MENOPOME n.
The hellbender.
NAUROPOMETER n.
An instrument for measuring the amount which a ship heels at sea.
PARALIPOMENON n.
A title given in the Douay Bible to the Books of Chronicles.
PERISPOMENON n.
A word which has the circumflex accent on the last syllable. Goodwin.
POLYPOMEDUSAE n.
Same as Hydrozoa.
PROPERISPOME n.
Properispomenon.
PROPERISPOMENON n.
A word which has the circumflex accent on the penult.
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