apple of Grenada

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apple of Grenada (plural apples of Grenada)

  1. (obsolete or heraldry) The pomegranate.
    • 1882, Archaeologia Cantiana, page 6:
      For this service, he received from that monarch a picturesque addition to the arms of the family, in the form of a canton charged with the pomegranate (the apple of Grenada), which, as it was borne by his collateral descendants […]
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