Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The pulpy material remaining after the juice has been pressed from fruit, such as apples or grapes.
  • noun Pulpy material remaining after the extraction of oil from nuts, seeds, or fish.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The substance of apples or of similar fruit crushed by grinding.
  • noun Fish-scrap or refuse of fishes from which the oil has been extracted.
  • noun The cake left after expressing castor-oil from the beans.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The substance of apples, or of similar fruit, crushed by grinding.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the pulp that remains after a fruit has been pressed to extract the juice (or a nut etc has been pressed to extract the oil)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English pomis, from Medieval Latin pōmācium, cider, from Vulgar Latin *pōma, apple, fruit; see pome.]

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Latin pomum.

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Examples

  • I accidentally bought something called pomace olive oil, which tasted horrible.

    Q&A: Is pomace olive oil bad for you? 2009

  • I accidentally bought something called pomace olive oil, which tasted horrible.

    Q&A: Is pomace olive oil bad for you? 2009

  • European standards (usually followed internationally) stipulate that the fruit used for pressing into EVOO exhibit an acidity level below 0.8%, as compared to the 2% allowed for merely virgin oil, with higher levels permitted for cruder grades such as so-called pomace oil which is often used in restaurants.

    Oil Slick 2009

  • Wine makers now can siphon the wine from one barrel to the next in order to leave the solids, called pomace, in the bottom of the fermenting tank.

    Berks county news 2010

  • The pomace which is what you call crushed apples fell into a slatted tub and, when the tub was full, a wooden disc was set on top of the pomace.

    When Me & Ed Made Apple Cider Herrick Kimball 2005

  • The pomace which is what you call crushed apples fell into a slatted tub and, when the tub was full, a wooden disc was set on top of the pomace.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Herrick Kimball 2005

  • We continue to make progress in the Netherlands, where the ministry of agriculture is funding a new $1.3 million research program to develop ways to raise edible insects on food waste, such as brewers' grain (a byproduct of beer brewing), soyhulls (the skin of the soybean) and apple pomace (the pulpy remains after the juice has been pressed out).

    The Six-Legged Meat of the Future Marcel Dicke 2011

  • She sometimes watched her father as he scratted apples in the granite mill, made the pomace, pressed the cheese between folds of canvas.

    CIDER SUNRISE • by Oonah V Joslin 2010

  • Use a good stiff brush, pomace stone, or a scraper.

    Meathead Goldwyn: Gooey Grilled Cheese on the Grill 2010

  • You could tell you were in a wine-consuming neighborhood, a California grower said, “by the large quantities of grape pomace or waste in the streets.”

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

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