Standard Lemma guide

pomace

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpʌmɪs/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɒ-/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈpʌməs/
  • homophone: pumice
  • rhymes with -ʌmɪs
  • rhymes with -ɒmɪs
  • rhymes with -ʌməs

1

noun

Meaning 1

The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.

Such residue from apples used in the process of cidermaking; also, a mass of crushed apples before the juice is pressed out.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: marc, stosh, pug

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.

Such residue from grapes used in winemaking.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: marc, stosh

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.

Such residue (especially castor bean cake or fish scrap) used as fertilizer.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, historical, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: marc, stosh

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Synonym of pulp (“a soft, moist mass formed by mashing something”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, archaic, countable, regional, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pulp

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Sheep offal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly, countable, obsolete, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

[Alt: Red grape flesh and seeds] From Late Middle English pomis, pomys (“cider; pulp of plants pressed to extract their juice or oil”), probably from Medieval Latin pōmācium, pōmātium (“cider”), possibly a variant of pomaceum (although first attested later), from Latin pōmum (“fruit; fruit tree”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h2epó (“away; off”) + *h1em- (“to take”), in the sense of something taken off a tree) + -āceum (neuter form of -āceus (suffix meaning ‘belonging to; having the nature of’, forming adjectives)). Doublet of pomade, pomate, and pomatum. Sense 1.1 (“crushed apples”) and sense 1.2 (“residue from grapes”) were possibly influenced by Middle French pommage (“(cidermaking) apple harvest; apple orchards”) and French poma, pomas, pomat (“residue from apples”) (Northern France).

Across languages

Translations

71 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: bërsi — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Arabic: ثجير — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Arabic: جِفْت (jift) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Arabic: التفل — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Armenian: չանչ (čʻančʻ) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Basque: pats — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Bulgarian: джибри (džibri) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Bulgarian: комина (komina) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Bulgarian: кюспе (kjuspe) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Bulgarian: пращина (praština) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Catalan: brisa — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Catalan: molinada — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Catalan: molsa — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Catalan: pinyol — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Catalan: pinyolada — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Chinese Mandarin: 果渣 (guǒzhā) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Czech: matoliny — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Dutch: vruchtenpulp — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Esperanto: rekremento — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Finnish: mäski — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Finnish: puristusjäte — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • French: marc — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Galician: bagazo — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Galician: bagullo — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Galician: buio — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Galician: bullo — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • German: Treber — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • German: Trester — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Greek: στέμφυλα (stémfyla) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Greek: τσάμπουρα (tsámpoura) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Greek: τσίπουρα (tsípoura) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Greek: βρύτεα (vrýtea) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Ancient Greek: βρῡ́τεα (brū́tea) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Ancient Greek: πίεσμα (píesma) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Hungarian: törköly — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Italian: sansa — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Italian: sansino — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Italian: vinaccia — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Japanese: ポマース (pomāsu) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Latin: sampsa — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Laz: ჭაჭა (ç̌aç̌a) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Luxembourgish: Balleg — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Luxembourgish: Marc — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Luxembourgish: Trester — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Macedonian: комина (komina) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Macedonian: комиње (kominje) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Norwegian Bokmål: pressrester — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Pannonian Rusyn: ком (kom) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Persian: پومیس — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Polish: wytłoczyny — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Polish: wytłoki — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Portuguese: bagaço — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Portuguese: bagulho — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Romagnol: vinaza — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Romanian: tescovină — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Russian: мезга́ (mezgá) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Russian: вы́жимки (výžimki) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Russian: жмых (žmyx) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Spanish: hollejo — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Tamil: சக்கை (cakkai) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Tamil: மண்டி (maṇṭi) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Turkish: cibre — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Ottoman Turkish: جبره (cibre) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Ottoman Turkish: طورتی (tortu) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Ukrainian: мезга (mezha) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Ukrainian: м'язга (mʺjazha) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Ukrainian: вичавки (vyčavky) — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Vietnamese: bã — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Welsh: gweisgion — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Welsh: soeg — pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil
  • Finnish: omenamassa — mass of crushed apples before the juice is pressed out