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
Latin mnemonics All nouns in "a" make Feminine, If you like "Musa" them decline, Except they're from a Graecian line, Or by their sense are Masculine. </poem> In his opera "The Turn of the Screw", Benjamin Britten used the words of a Latin mnemonic that he had found in a Latin grammar book belonging to Myfanwy Piper's aunt for Miles' "malo" song: <poem> Mālo: I would rather be Mālo: In an apple tree Mălo: Than a naughty boy Mălo: In adversity </poem> The rhyme explains the Latin near-homonym sentence "malo malo malo malo", where each is a different meaning for one of