pomaceous

Updated: June 1, 2025

The many cases, however, in which variation has gone far beyond nature and has not yet stopped are ignored. For instance, no wild pomaceous fruit is, I believe, so large as our apples, and no doubt they could be got much larger if flavour, etc., were entirely neglected.

Sir James Marchant - Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1