Persimmon

//pəɹˈsɪmən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The orange fruit of any of various species of trees in the genus Diospyros, especially Diospyros kaki (the kaki or Japanese persimmon) or Diospyros virginiana (the wild American persimmon), which is sweet when ripe and astringent when immature.

    "I warned them not to eat the persimmons until they were soft to the touch."

  2. 2
    orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe wordnet
  3. 3
    The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).
  4. 4
    any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros wordnet

Etymology

From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan (“dried fruit”), from the same Proto-Algonquian root *-imin (“fruit, berry”) as Unami ximin.

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