Pomegranate

 In a way it has the properties of a few hundred apples packed into a single fruit.

Why is it named as pomegranate?

Pome and Apple were almost generic names for fruits.

This has been used as medicine in Ayurveda for centuries. Esp the sheath or or the fibrous membrane ( known as Locular septa) that holds the multiple seeds. 

Basic science is the maximum nutrition is packed in seeds and then the skin. Here in this fruit the actual skin is the one that holds the seeds. 

In fact the Portuguese explorers who initially ventured in search of food later on ( the French and Brit me n myish colonisers looted those lands discovered by Portuguese - incidentally the people who started slave trade).

They ( the Portuguese) left traces of wherever they went and whatever they saw, be it a natural feature like a river with something unique, a culture which was different, a fruit or vegetation that was new through their vocabulary predominantly with Latin etymology.

For example the country CAMEROUN ( in French) or Cameroon (in English) was identified with its popular big Wouri river which had a large quantity of shrimp. He named the place as 'Rio Dos Camaros' ( Portuguese meaning river of Shrimps from Latin origin ' camarus- shrimp/craw fish).

In fact they did not have time to get into the details. They struck on to a common term and tried to weave new words around it. 

Thus, the only fruit known and popular in the West was apple ( which was for long even used as a generic name for fruit).

The word "apple", formerly spelled 'æppel: in Old English, is derived from the Proto-Germanic root ap(a)laz, which could also mean fruit in general. This is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European ab(e)l-, but the precise original meaning and the relationship between both words is uncertain".

That's why peach was known as Persian apple, Papaya as custard apple, even potato as earth apple ( pomme de terre). Pomegranate was called ' pomem granatum' ' multiple apples or apple with multiple seeds'. That's why pineapple is called 'ananas' in many languages ( from TUPI word -nanas meaning excellent fruit) but because as it was pine shaped they called it as pineapple in English