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
• Syn: ↑American persimmon, ↑Diospyros virginiana
• Hypernyms: ↑persimmon, ↑persimmon tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Diospyros, ↑genus Diospyros
• Part Meronyms: ↑persimmon
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun1. : persimmon
2. : the light soft wood of the sandbox tree
3. : opossum wood
Useful english dictionary. 2012.