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Pomona Rom. Mythol.|pəʊˈməʊnə| [L. Pōmōna.] The goddess of fruits and fruit-trees; hence, the fruit-trees of a country, or a treatise on them (cf. flora). Pomona green: see quot. 1842.
1584Peele Arraignm. Paris i. i, To them that do this honour to our fields Her mellow apples poor Pomona yields. 1706Phillips, Pomona, a Nymph of Latium reckon'd to be the Goddess of Orchards and Fruits; whence the Word is taken for a Title to several Treatises of Fruit-trees. 1727–46Thomson Summer 663 Bear me, Pomona, to thy citron groves. 1833T. Hook Love & Pride, Widow ii, The pleasing viridity..of her mother's pomona pelisse. 1842D. R. Hay Nomencl. Colours (1846) 44 Pomona green is the popular name of all full-toned greens in which yellow predominates. 1873E. Spon Workshop Receipts Ser. i. 48/1 The rose colour, cornelian red, and pomona green require a less degree of heat. |