a friend posted an recipe (on another board i visit--don't worry--this is not a food thread)
it was for pomegranate vinegrette..

i know the subject is a YART--but its a very old yart..

the word,pomegranate, is, as some (most) of you, might know is made of two word parts, pom (apple) and granite (seed)--a name that suits it perfectly..

granite (the rock) is seedy too. its a metimorphic rock, made from grains of sand, and sometimes, you can still see the them (or see something that appears like grains or seeds)

pomegranate syrpup, is 'grenadine' and the county granada all so owes its name to a seedy root..

there are other seedy words out there..

Granite is igneous. You may be thinking of quartzite

oops~ well it is granite that has a fine 'flecked' quality (as well as veins) that give it its name.

pomegranate

You forgot grenade 'the handheld, small bomb' (though nowadays they're rocket-propelled). The early ones looked like pomegranates. From Latin granatus 'having seeds' from granum 'seed, grain'.

actually-i didn't forget it--

i didn't know it!
(and no, i didn't look up the proper roots/i sort of have an idea and knew the granate was from a root word for seed, (but not the the exact spelling of the root.)

and i think it goes further back than the latin.. (but i could be wrong)

there are other (fairly) common words out there in this group... (anyone want to add to the list?)

Grenade, like grain, corn, kernel, et al., comes, via Latin, from the PIE root *gr@no- 'grain'.

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Granite is igneous. You may be thinking of quartzite

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Not so fast, Dalehileman. Geological terms are keen examples of the fuzzy nature of all the words we use.
From the web...

"Debate has long centered on whether granite is igneous or metamorphic in origin. Originally granite was thought to form mainly from magmatic differentiation of basaltic magma, but geologists now believe there is simply too much of it for it to have formed this way, except locally. Most granite seems to have formed either by melting, partial melting, or metamorphism of deeply buried shale and sandstone. Granite dikes are clearly igneous, and granite emplaced in the upper few kilometers of the Earth's crust also often shows evidence of forceful intrusion into surrounding rocks, whereas some granites that formed deeper within the crust seem not to have been forcefully emplaced. Evidence of intrusion or great mobility is considered to indicate an igneous origin that stems from melting of sediments; but where no good evidence of either a magma chamber or of fluidity is observed, a metamorphic origin must be considered."