Grenade

Noun

 * 1)  A pomegranate.
 * 2) A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched from a grenade launcher.

Derived terms

 * grenadier
 * grenadine
 * grenade launcher
 * hand grenade
 * grenadelike

Verbs for Grenade
charge with—; catapult—; employ—; fire—; flee from—; fling—; hurl—; roll—; — assaults; —bursts; —dispenses; —explodes; —s harass; —injures; —maims; —levels; —s terrorize ; —wounds.

Thesaurus
aerial bomb, antipersonnel bomb, bomb, bombshell, carcass, concussion grenade, depth bomb, depth charge, fire bomb, gas grenade, hand grenade, incendiary bomb, incendiary grenade, infernal machine, petard, tear-gas grenade, time bomb, wall grenade

Etymology
From French grenade:, from grenate: in the phrase pome grenate:, ultimately from Latin pomum granatum:. The -d developed in French under influence of Spanish granada:.

Translations

 * Armenian: նուռ (nuṙ)
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Granatapfel
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: רִמּוֹן (rimon)


 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Japanese: ざくろ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian: նռնակ (nṙnak)
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:, βομβίδα
 * Hebrew: רִמּוֹן (rimon)
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Japanese: 榴弾 (ryūdan), りゅう弾 (ryūdan), グレネード (gurenēdo)
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese:

Anagrams

 * en garde
 * enraged
 * grandee
 * enraged
 * grandee

Etymology
Substantive use of Old French granate in pome granate ‘pomegranate’, from dialectal Italian pom granat, from Latin pomum granatum ‘seeded fruit’. The -d- developed under influence from Spanish granada.

Noun

 * 1) pomegranate
 * 2) grenade
 * 3) insignia, badge

Derived terms

 * grenadier
 * grenadine