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The word "pomegranate" is derived from the word "grenade"





The word "pomegranate" is not just like the word "grenade", but is its direct descendant: it comes from the Spanish word «granada», which means the plant pomegranate. This name was given because the older types of grenades in shape and size like the fruit, and by analogy with the grains inside the fetus, and flying shrapnel from a grenade.

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