"Pomona green" meaning in English

See Pomona green in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Pomona greens [plural]
Etymology: Named after Pomona, the goddess of fruitful abundance. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} Pomona green (countable and uncountable, plural Pomona greens)
  1. apple-green Tags: countable, uncountable

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Pomona green meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after Pomona, the goddess of fruitful abundance.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Pomona greens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "Pomona green (countable and uncountable, plural Pomona greens)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851, Henry Meredith Parker, Bole Ponjis",
          "text": "Who did not know that office Jaun of pale Pomona green, / With its drab and yellow lining, and picked out black between, / Which down the Esplanade did go at the ninth hour of the day […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "apple-green"
      ],
      "id": "en-Pomona_green-en-noun-~5y6J0TG",
      "links": [
        [
          "apple-green",
          "apple-green"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pomona green"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Named after Pomona, the goddess of fruitful abundance.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Pomona greens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "Pomona green (countable and uncountable, plural Pomona greens)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851, Henry Meredith Parker, Bole Ponjis",
          "text": "Who did not know that office Jaun of pale Pomona green, / With its drab and yellow lining, and picked out black between, / Which down the Esplanade did go at the ninth hour of the day […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "apple-green"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "apple-green",
          "apple-green"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Pomona green"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.