apricot vs pomegranate

apricot

noun
  • A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside. 

  • The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill. 

  • A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit. 

  • The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca 

  • A dog with an orange-coloured coat. 

adj
  • Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot. 

pomegranate

noun
  • The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart. 

  • The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit. 

  • A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit. 

adj
  • Of a colour like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit; dark red or orange-red. 

How often have the words apricot and pomegranate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )