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The name pomegranate derives from medieval Latin pōmum 'apple' and grānātum 'seeded'. [10] Possibly stemming from the old French word for the fruit, pomme-grenade, the pomegranate was known in early English as apple of Grenada—a term which today survives only in heraldic blazons.
Grenadine syrup was originally prepared from pomegranate juice, sugar, and water, [2] with its name deriving from the French word grenade, for pomegranate (from the Latin grānātum, "seeded"). It is not related to the Grenadines archipelago, which takes its name from Grenada, itself from Granada, Spain. [3]
The Gate of the Pomegranates (Spanish: Puerta de las Granadas) is an historical access point of a pathway that leads through the Forest of the Alhambra to the Nasrid palace that is the Alhambra, located in the city of Granada, Spain.
The pomegranate (in Spanish, granada) is the heraldic device of Granada. Etymology. Granada's historical name in the Arabic language was ...
Punica is a small genus of fruit-bearing deciduous shrubs or small trees in the flowering plant family Lythraceae.The better known species is the pomegranate (Punica granatum).
The image depicts baby Jesus being held by the Virgin Mary, who is approximately drawn as 1m tall, whilst holding fruit in her right hand.Some critics argue that she is grasping onto a pomegranate, which is a symbol of the name originally given by the Spaniards to the country, New Kingdom of Grenada.
Punica protopunica, commonly known as the pomegranate tree or Socotran pomegranate, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lythraceae. [3] It is endemic to the island of Socotra . Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. [1] The tree, often thorny, attains a height of 2.5 to 4.5 meters.
Grenada (/ ɡ r ə ˈ n eɪ d ə / ⓘ grə-NAY-də; Grenadian Creole French: Gwenad, ) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea.The southernmost of the Windward Islands, Grenada is directly south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and about 100 miles (160 km) north of Trinidad and the South American mainland.