pomace
Meanings
- The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.
- Such residue from apples used in the process of cidermaking; also, a mass of crushed apples before the juice is pressed out.
- Such residue from grapes used in winemaking.
- Such residue (especially castor bean cake or fish scrap) used as fertilizer.
- Synonym of pulp (“a soft, moist mass formed by mashing something”).
- Sheep offal.
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Etymology
[Alt: Red grape flesh and seeds] From Late Middle English pomis, pomys (“cider; pulp of plants pressed to extract their juice or oil”), probably from Medieval Latin pōmācium, pōmātium (“cider”), possibly a variant of pomaceum (although first attested later), from Latin pōmum (“fruit; fruit tree”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *h₁em- (“to take”), in the sense of something taken off a tree) + -āceum (neuter form of -āceus (suffix meaning ‘belonging to; having the nature of’, forming adjectives)). Doublet of pomade, pomate, and pomatum. Sense 1.1 (“crushed apples”) and sense 1.2 (“residue from grapes”) were possibly influenced by Middle French pommage (“(cidermaking) apple harvest; apple orchards”) and French poma, pomas, pomat (“residue from apples”) (Northern France).