possumwood

possumwood
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
Hypernyms: ↑persimmon, ↑persimmon tree
Member Holonyms: ↑Diospyros, ↑genus Diospyros
Part Meronyms: ↑persimmon

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2. : the light soft wood of the sandbox tree

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