† pome-ˈcitron Obs.
[f. pome + citron. Cf. L. mālum citreum.]
= citron 1.
| 1555 Eden Decades 81 A great frute as bygge as pome citrons. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 92 If they [citrons] be very great and rounde like Pompeons, they call them Pomcidrons. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 359 The Pomecitron is not so good to be chewed and eaten of it selfe. 1625 Purchas Pilgrimage iv. 1173 The Iland yeeldeth Figs, Pomegranates, Muske-millions, Pome-Citrons very faire. 1709 W. Dampier Voy. III. ii. 56 Pine-Apples, Pome-citrons, Pomegranates, and other sorts of Fruits. 1802 Jamieson Use Sacr. Hist. I. ii. 439 The pome-citron is said to bear fruit at all times. |
b. Comb., as pome-citron pill, pome-citron tree, pome-citron wood.
| 1624 Darcie Birth of Heresies xvi. 66 In stead of incense they vsed Cedar or Pomecytron wood for perfume. 1641 G. Sandys Paraphr. Song Sol. viii. iii, From under the Pomecitron tree. 1675 H. Woolley Gentlew. Comp. 177 The Pomo-citron-pills preserve and help digestion. |