Sentence:  Persephone is taken to the underworld by Hades to be his queen. She willingly eats a seed of <WSD>pomegranate</WSD> and is forced to spend every winter with her husband in the land of the dead, symbolizing the yearly decay and revival of vegetation. / ... / In Judaism, the number of seeds in a <WSD>pomegranate</WSD> is said to be the exact number of mitzvah, or spiritual duties required of a devout Jew. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The fruit of "Punica granatum", about the size of an orange and having a red pulp containing many seeds and enclosed in a thick, hard, reddish skin.