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noun, feminine

grenade

/ɡʁə.nad/

noun, feminine/ɡʁə.nad/plural: grenades

pomegranate; grenade; insignia, badge; pomegranate (Grenade de guerre is used in French to describe a grenade in English heraldry)

Substantive use of Old French grenate in pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), from dialectal northern Italian pom granat, from Medieval Latin pomum granatum (“seeded fruit”), from Latin grānātum. The -d- developed under influence from Spanish granada.

grenade — French Dictionary | Passage