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the county granada all so owes its name to a seedy root
The country is Grenada, but Granada is a province and city in Spain, a department and city in Nicaragua, etc.
garnet - a pomegranate colored gem
granadilla - a passionflower related fruit/plant/wood. granary - a storehouse for grain granatin - a chemical found in pomegranates granatite/grenatite - another name for staurolite granatum - bark/stem of pomegranate used as a remedy graniferous - bearing seeds graniform - shaped like corn granilla - small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect granita - an icy beverage or dessert grantic/granitical - hard as granite granitification - forming into granite granitiform - like granite granitin - an aggregate mineral granitite - granite rich in biotite granitization, granitize, granitoid - granivorous - eating grain granodiorite - course-grained igneous rock granodioritic granola - you know granolith/ic - paving of chipped granite granophyre - another type of rock granophyric - like " granoplasm - granular protoplasm granula, granular, granulatio, granulation, granule, granuliform, granulodipose, granuloblast, granuloblastosis, granulocorpuscle, granulocyte, -cytic, ... , granuloma, ... (as you can tell I'm being held hostage in a medical dictionary...)
grenache? - red grape - no etymology given grenadier - a soldier with grenades Grenadines - a chain of islands
I've bored even myself now, so I'll stop.
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