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Pomaceous   Listen
adjective
Pomaceous  adj.  
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
Like an apple or pear; producing pomes.
(b)
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.
2.
Like pomace.





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"Pomaceous" Quotes from Famous Books



... slovenly in execution, but with an ease and lightness of touch that contrast pleasantly with Thomson's and Akenside's ponderosity. When Dyer wrote blank verse he slipped into the Thomsonian diction, "cumbent sheep" and "purple groves pomaceous." But in "Grongar Hill"—although he does call the sun Phoebus—the shorter measure seems to bring shorter words, and he has ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers


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