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Flower vs Pome - What's the difference?

flower | pome |

As nouns the difference between flower and pome

is that flower is a colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction or flower can be something that flows, such as a river while pome is a type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.

As verbs the difference between flower and pome

is that flower is to put forth blooms while pome is (obsolete|intransitive) to grow to a head, or form a head in growing.

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English

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Alternative forms

* flowre (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) flour, from (etyl) flur, from (etyl) (more at (l)).

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