pome

/poʊm/

Other forms: pomes

Definitions of pome

1. noun

   a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
   synonyms: false fruit

   types:

   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

   crab apple, crabapple

   small sour apple; suitable for preserving

   dessert apple, eating apple

   an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking

   cooking apple

   an apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc

   bosc

   greenish-yellow pear

   anjou

   a pear with firm flesh and a green skin

   bartlett, bartlett pear

   juicy yellow pear

   seckel, seckel pear

   small yellowish- to reddish-brown pear

   type of:

   fruit

   the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant