apple of Grenada

noun

The pomegranate.

Meanings

nounapple of Grenada (plural apples of Grenada)

plural apples of Grenada

  1. obsoletegovernmentThe pomegranate.

    For this service, he received from that monarch a picturesque addition to the arms of the family, in the form of a canton charged with the pomegranate (the apple of Grenada), which, as it was borne by his collateral descendants[…]

    1882, Archaeologia Cantiana, page 6
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