a. [ LL. ponum an apple. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Like pomace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ponum a fruit, LL., an apple: cf. LL. pomagium, pomacium. ] The substance of apples, or of similar fruit, crushed by grinding. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; a cover + &unr_; a prickle + -oid. ] (Zool.) Pertaining to the Pomacentridæ, a family of bright-colored tropical fishes having spiny opercula; -- often called coral fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]