pomology
noun
the science that deals with fruits and fruit growing.
pomological
-
a word derived from
pomology.
Example Sentences
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Poring over road maps, I plotted a south-to-north journey, with stops at orchards and cideries where I hoped to meet the people behind this pomological frenzy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Mr. Aigner’s pomological studies were most likely an act of survival, focusing on the reassuring rationality of record-making during the irrational decimation by the Reich.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2016
For the value of these varieties, in the states mentioned, you have the authority of the best pomological societies.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
The crude beginnings of scores of pomological novelties are flaunted on every side.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
For, we longed to try the relish of some of the exquisite pomological exhibits, whose multiformity was too immense to be portrayed in a pen-picture.
From By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Johanna S. Wisthaler
