Pomona noun & adjective. [pǝ(ʊ)'mǝʊnǝ] Also pomona. M17.
[Latin name of the Roman goddess of fruits and fruit trees from pomum fruit.]
A. noun.
1. (Usu. Pomona.) (Used as a title for a treatise on) the fruit trees of a country. M17.

2. (pomona.) In full Pomona green. A green colour in which yellow predominates over blue. M19.
■ J. Fowles Such an infinity of greens..from the most intense emerald to the palest Pomona.

3. Pomona-glass, a type of ornamental glass stained pale amber on one surface and etched on the other. L19.
b. adjective. Of a pomona green colour. M19.

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