persimmon : Idioms & Phrases

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american persimmon

  • noun medium-sized tree of dry woodlands in the southern and eastern United States bearing yellow or orange very astringent fruit that is edible when fully ripe
    possumwood; Diospyros virginiana.
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Japanese persimmon

  • noun small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit
    kaki; Diospyros kaki.
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  • Diospyros Kaki and its red or yellow edible fruit, which outwardly resembles a tomato, but contains a few large seeds.
Webster 1913

persimmon tree

  • noun any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros
    persimmon.
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