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Fact 2237 — one French word for fruit and grenade

Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. A ripe whole and cut pomegranate beside an old open French dictionary.
AI-generated close view of a cut pomegranate and its edible seeds.
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Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. A ripe whole and cut pomegranate beside an old open French dictionary.

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In French, *grenade* means both the pomegranate fruit and a hand grenade. The name for the explosive device arose by analogy with the fruit in the 16th century, and dictionaries link it chiefly to a resemblance in shape. These etymological sources do not support the popular claim that the seeds inspired the name because they resemble fragments.