1. (Bot.) (a) Like an apple or pear; producing pomes. (b) Of or pertaining to a suborder (Pomeæ) of rosaceous plants, which includes the true thorn trees, the quinces, service berries, medlars, and loquats, as well as the apples, pears, crabs, etc.
2. Like pomace.
POMADE Po*made", n. Etym: [F. pommade pomatum, OF. pomade cider (cf. Sp. pomada, It. pomata, LL. pomata a drink made of apples), from L. pomum fruit, LL., an apple. Cf. Pomatum.]
1. Cider. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
2. Perfumed ointment; esp., a fragrant unguent for the hair; pomatum; — originally made from apples.
POMANDER Po*man"der, n. Etym: [Sp. poma.] (a) A perfume to be carried with one, often in the form of a ball. (b) A box to contain such perfume, formerly carried by ladies, as at the end of a chain; — more properly pomander box. [Obs.] Bacon.
POMARINE
Po"ma*rine, a. Etym: [Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Having the nostril covered with a scale. Pomarine jager (Zoöl.), a North Atlantic jager (Stercorarius pomarinus) having the elongated middle tail feathers obtuse. The adult is black.
POMATUM
Po*ma"tum, n. Etym: [See Pomade.]
Defn: A perfumed unguent or composition, chiefly used in dressing the hair; pomade. Wiseman.