[GovernmentShrinker]

Hmmmm, so they are. Though online dictionaries give the Russian for pomegranate as "granat" and for grenade as "granata". Shouldn't these translator programs use dictionaries?

As an aside, I used to live in Moscow and remember pomegranates as about the only locally available fruit in winter. Try to imagine a bunch of grade-schoolers with pomegranates in their lunch boxes; a few lucky kids even had straws to launch their seeds with.

[MineralMan]

The word Grenade came from the word for pomegranite, due to the similarity in shape of early grenades and the fragmentary nature of the fruit.