American persimmon

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

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  • Persimmon — Per*sim mon, n. [Virginia Indian.] (Bot.) An American tree ({Diospyros Virginiana}) and its fruit, found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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