The name of the city is derived from its original Arabic name, Garnata, not as some believe from the fruit, pomegranate which derives its name from Medieval Latin pōmum "apple" and grānātum"seeded" or the French word for the fruit, pomme-grenade. The pomegranate was known in early English as "apple of Grenada"—a term which today survives only in Hranada as its adopted fruit, reflected in fountains, and bollards.
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