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Persimmon

noun

Any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros. Synonym: persimmon tree.

Orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe.

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American persimmon

Japanese persimmon

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"Persimmon" Quotes from Famous Books

... thirty-one genera and seventy-eight species are found west of the mountains. The Pacific coast possesses no papaw, no linden or basswood, no locust-trees, no cherry-tree large enough for a timber tree, no gum-trees, no sorrel-tree, nor kalmia; no persimmon-trees, not a holly, only one ash that may be called a timber tree, no catalpa or sassafras, not a single elm or hackberry, not a mulberry, not a hickory, or a beech, or a true chestnut. These facts would seem to indicate that the forest flora of North America entered it from the east, and that ...

— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly

... drew near to North Wilkesboro', where he proposed to make a first essay in railway journeying, Zeke seated himself under the shade of a grove of persimmon-trees by the wayside, there painfully to encumber his feet with the new shoes. As he laced these, he indulged in soliloquy, after a fashion bred of his lonely life, on a subject born ...

— Heart of the Blue Ridge • Waldron Baily

Words linked to "Persimmon" : possumwood, Japanese persimmon, fruit tree, genus Diospyros, Diospyros, date plum, berry, Diospyros kaki, American persimmon, kaki, Diospyros virginiana, Diospyros lotus, persimmon tree