Asimina

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The pawpaw (Asimina triloba), a fruit-bearing plant. US, dated

    "[…] but it still contains an excellent collection, some fine specimens of magnolias, asiminas, crataegusus, […] and other foreign trees and shrubs, and is conducted with the greatest liberality."

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genus asimina

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"[…] but it still contains an excellent collection, some fine specimens of magnolias, asiminas, crataegusus, […] and other foreign trees and shrubs, and is conducted with the greatest liberality."

Etymology

From an Algonquian word *assimin or *rassimin (the second element of which is -min, "berry, fruit"), via Cajun French assiminier.

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asimina triloba

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