Vocabulary : Polyzoon to Pomegranate

Polyzoon : One of the individual zooids forming the compound organism of a polyzoan.
Pomace : The substance of apples, or of similar fruit, crushed by grinding.
Pomacentroid : Pertaining to the Pomacentridae, a family of bright-colored tropical fishes having spiny opercula; -- often called coral fishes.
Pomaceous : Like an apple or pear; producing pomes. ;; Of or pertaining to a suborder (Pomeae) of rosaceous plants, which includes the true thorn trees, the quinces, service berries, medlars, and loquats, as well as the apples, pears, crabs, etc. ;; Like pomace.
Pomade : Cider. ;; Perfumed ointment; esp., a fragrant unguent for the hair; pomatum; -- originally made from apples.

Pomander : A perfume to be carried with one, often in the form of a ball. ;; A box to contain such perfume, formerly carried by ladies, as at the end of a chain; -- more properly pomander box.
Pomarine : Having the nostril covered with a scale.
Pomatum : A perfumed unguent or composition, chiefly used in dressing the hair; pomade. ;; To dress with pomatum.
Pome : 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. ;; A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service. ;; To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
Pomegranate : The fruit of the tree Punica Granatum; also, the tree itself (see Balaustine), which is native in the Orient, but is successfully cultivated in many warm countries, and as a house plant in colder climates. The fruit is as large as an orange, and has a hard rind containing many rather large seeds, each one separately covered with crimson, acid pulp. ;; A carved or embroidered ornament resembling a pomegranate.

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