punica granatum

1. 1.

   shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit

   Synonymspomegranatepomegranate tree

   Broaderfruit tree

   Part ofPunica

   Partspomegranate

Questions about punica granatum

What does punica granatum mean?

punica granatum means "shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit".

What is another word for punica granatum?

Close synonyms include pomegranate, pomegranate tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is punica granatum a common word?

punica granatum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.