Pomegranate late 16th century and into California by Spanish settlers in 1769. Today, it is widely cultivated throughout the Middle East and Caucasus region, north and tropical Africa, South Asia, Central Asia, the drier parts of southeast Asia, and parts of the Mediterranean Basin. It is also cultivated in parts of Arizona and California. In the 20th and 21st centuries, it has become more common in the shops and markets of Europe and the Western Hemisphere. The name pomegranate derives from medieval Latin "pōmum" "apple" and "grānātum" "seeded". Possibly stemming from the old French word for the fruit, "pomme-grenade", the pomegranate
Musa (genus) "H. icasia". The genus "Musa" was first named by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. The name is a Latinization of the Arabic name for the fruit, "mauz" (موز). "Mauz" meaning "Musa" is discussed in the 11th-century Arabic encyclopedia "The Canon of Medicine", which was translated to Latin in medieval times and well known in Europe. "Muz" is also the Turkish, Persian, and Somali name for the fruit. Some sources assert that "Musa" is named for Antonius Musa, physician to the Emperor Augustus. The word "banana" came to English from Spanish and Portuguese, which in turn apparently obtained it from a West