means A round, hard-skinned fruit packed with hundreds of juicy, jewel-like seeds (arils) wrapped in tart-sweet pulp, native to the Middle East and now grown across warm climates.

from From Old French 'pome grenate' — literally 'seedy apple' — which came from Latin: 'pomum' (apple, or more loosely any fruit) plus 'granatum' (full of grains or seeds), from 'granum,' a grain or seed. So the name is a quiet inventory of what's inside: an apple stuffed with seeds. The same Latin 'granatum' gave the grenade its name, soldiers reportedly seeing the seed-spilling fruit in the spherical, packed-tight bomb — and the deep red of the seeds lent its name to the gemstone garnet too.