grenade

Meanings

Noun

• A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched from a grenade launcher.
• A pomegranate.
• A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top.
• An unattractive girl.

Verb

• To use grenade(s) upon.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• grenado
• hand grenade
• rocket-propelled grenade
• Mills bomb

Origin

• Borrowed from French grenade, from Old French grenate in the phrase pomme grenate, ultimately from Medieval Latin pomum + granatum. The -d developed in French under influence of Spanish granada.