Pome vs Pepo - What's the difference?
pome | pepo |
A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.
A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
(obsolete) To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.
A plant producing such a fruit.
* 1945 , George Francis Carter, Plant Geography and Culture History in the American Southwest , Issue 5?, page 25
As a noun 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 a verb pome
is (obsolete|intransitive) to grow to a head, or form a head in growing.As a proper noun pepo is
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(wikipedia pome)Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* (fruit that develops from the base of a flower) apple, pear, quinceDerived terms
* pomaceous * pomiferousVerb
(pom)Anagrams
* * ----pepo
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Noun
(en noun)- The Papago claim that their ancient pepo would produce a mature, sweet melon if the ground were wet only once, while the "new" melons would not.